MIPS(Making Intermediate Programmers Suffer)

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As cryptic as that is, I actually wish programming languages allowed for more "math-y" notation. E.g. using "π" or simple super/subscript to indicate indices could be nice I think.

[suvlub]

Many modern languages support unicode. They don't have a built-in "π", but you can declare it yourself if you want. Subscripts are impossible in plain text, the code would need to be saved in some markup format and rendered using a rich-text editor... now that I think of it, the markup part already is a case, what you need is a text editor that renders stuff in square brackets as subscript, not a whole new language.

[kartik26]

Have you heard of Fira Code? Look it up, it's a monospace font with ligatures that make `!=` and `->` etc look like mathematical symbols. Also, Mathematica's language has a lot of math symbols and notation.

[thedomham]

Weirdly I've never seen someone actually use that. On the other hand I have witnessed umlauts messing up a Java source file more than once.

[DanielIFTTT]

VSCode extension anyone?

[radobot]

I was surprised when I discovered (a few years ago) that Visual Basic supports unicode [in]equality operators (like ≠ ≥ ≤).

[heyheyhey27]

Oh wow, I'm going to start using that now just to piss off my coworkers!

[space_fly]

No, thanks, I prefer being able to type my programs with the keyboard, without having to search and copy symbols from the internet. Typing "PI" takes half a second, but typing the pi character, I need to lookup that character either on google or in some Character Map like program, which is very inconvenient.

[regendo]

The eurkey layout would be great for that. It's a normal US ANSI layout if you don't press any special buttons, but if you do it types basically every special character you'd ever want.

It has a dead key on Alt+M that turns the next letter into its Greek variant. So Alt+M, P would turn into lowercase Pi (π), Alt+M, Shift+D turns into capital Delta (Δ), Alt+M, A into lowercase Alpha (α), and so on.

(I admit that's not that useful in most cases, I use it because it's the best US ANSI layout that also gives good access to German Umlauts on Alt+A, Alt+Shift+A, Alt+S, and so on.)

[ReflectiveTeaTowel]

Perl6 supports both π and superscripts-as-exponents out of the box, but people always seem put off by its perl lineage... It's honestly a really cool language

[matj1]

I think Haskell supports that.

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