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		sedachv on Nov 7, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Python should take a lesson from APL: Walrus opera... Smalltalk (among other languages of the 1960s and 1970s) had a left arrow symbol as the assignment operator. 95 was ← instead of _ in ASCII pre-1967. Also, anyone pretending to be a competent computer programmer while whining about being unable to use Unicode in your text editor, please find a new hobby.

squiggleblaz on Nov 7, 2019 [–]

> Also, anyone pretending to be a competent computer programmer while whining about being unable to use Unicode in your text editor, please find a new hobby.

Yes. It seems like programmers are people who make the technology of the next generation using the technology of the previous generation.

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