APL certainly did. Back in The Dark Ages, I was working in Heidelberg, and one of their programmers, who was sightless, had a (then) very high-tech camera, about the size of a bic lighter, which connected to a fingertip-sized pad of pins. Said pins would vibrate for dark (or light - you could dial in the contrast you wanted)points in its visual field.
He had trained himself to read the APL characters in the camera's view (one character at time) by placing his finger on the pad. He was thus able to write, read, and debug APL programs. He lauded the caret placement of APL, which made the debugging task much easier. That, and the terse nature of APL, enabled him to rise above his visual limitations. Bob On January 29, 2015, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > One of the struggles blind people have, when coding is... well,read > this for yourself: > > <http://blog.freecodecamp.com/2015/01/a-vision-of-coding-without-opening-your-eyes.html> > > I wonder if J has something to offer here? > > -- > Raul > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see <http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
