Re: Characters for Programming Languages

[john]

> You should also consider the impact of the keyboard and entry of these
> characters.

> Backspace overtyping would not be very convenient in programming languages.

It worked fairly well in APL, but single-stroke keying would be
better.  Key combinations are an acceptable compromise if the
systems could handle them.  Having only 4 modifiers doesn't quite
handle it, but then the day of the function key is mostly past.