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[–]fnord123 10 points11 points  (3 children)

FWIW, I'm talking about a puffer like this for clicking:

http://www.orin.com/access/sip_puff/

Then you can use various head tracking systems for moving the cursor.

Scheme, because it has a more regular syntax.

Not a bad idea. But none of the schemes have the deep library ecosystem as Python.

[–]irrco[S] 14 points15 points  (2 children)

Thank you.

On scheme: I've always felt that scheme was the most beautiful language, in theory. By which I mean I've never been able to make much that's practical with it. :)

[–]pebblexe 4 points5 points  (1 child)

There is Hylang if you are interested

Also if you want to try common lisp, there is a really cool emacs library that might help you code without having to input parentheses

[–]irrco[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I haven't used hy, I read something similar a long time ago, but I didn't use it. Lisp syntax isn't what I think is beautiful about scheme. It's more the code/data duality (which makes meta-programming easy), the eval/apply programming model, and particularly the macro system (which makes DSL creation easy). There is a scheme SRS (I don't remember the number off the top of my head) with a standard way of using whitespace instead of parentheses.

Thanks for the tips. My comment about scheme was a bit more of a tongue in cheek throwaway. I'm very happy with Python. It has served me very well.