[HN Gopher] Smalltalk Type
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       Smalltalk Type
        
       Author : rbanffy
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2023-03-27 17:38 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (moritzfuerst.net)
 (TXT) w3m dump (moritzfuerst.net)
        
       | Mesopropithecus wrote:
       | Cool stuff. What's funny is that when learning Smalltalk, I got
       | used to proportional fonts for programming, but only in a
       | Smalltalk environment. I still find it odd to see that in another
       | editor, and I have no idea why.
        
         | anthk wrote:
         | Because Smalltalk already shows up the main structure in boxes.
        
       | shaunxcode wrote:
       | Nice, here they are being used on their blog
       | https://moritzfuerst.net/micro - lovely aesthetic.
        
         | chess_buster wrote:
         | I dislike the anti-aliasing of the pixelated fonts.
        
           | shaunxcode wrote:
           | fair, maybe they will release a non-aliased version?
        
             | moritz wrote:
             | Author here, you two mind telling me which operating system
             | / browser / screen res you used? These render crisp on all
             | my devices with macOS/ iOS in Safari and Firefox. Could be
             | Chrome does sth I have to disable.
        
       | fulltimeloser wrote:
       | The ASCII character set standardization and subsequent keyboards
       | has had a huge impact on programming languages. Characters not
       | found on a standard keyboard are hardly ever used. And if thy
       | are, it cause lots of issues, because they are so hard to type. I
       | hope we get cheap reconfigurable keyboards with oled key caps in
       | the near future. It could revitalize programming language design
       | using a more powerful syntax with symbols etc.
        
         | readthenotes1 wrote:
         | The first Smalltalk-80 used still required the left arrow for
         | assignment.
         | 
         | It was a real PITA because it was underbar (_, shift-dash) on
         | the keyboard iirc.
         | 
         | Any assignment made me want to drink, thus the character name.
        
         | chess_buster wrote:
         | People will use something like |> and make a ligature for it in
         | the font, that looks like this >. and that's it. However, have
         | you seen this: https://fluxkeyboard.com
        
           | rbanffy wrote:
           | They'll do it now, the same way in some ST's you wrote := and
           | it got translated to a left-pointing-arrow.
           | 
           | Let's not forget that in the early 80's, more than 8 bits per
           | character was something that almost never happened.
        
       | chess_buster wrote:
       | Wonderful!
        
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