keyboardspecial-characterscharacterkeyboard-layoutdvorak

Is there a programming language that uses characters other than those in the (non-extended) ascii table?


I cant see who would make such a decision but is there any such language?

The reason I ask this (or some trivia, if you like) is that I just finished making the eighth iteration of my "developer" version of dvorak (big emphasis on special characters). And four keys are currently not used!

Since I dont ever want to stumble upon a new language to try, only to find out that my layout lacks a crucial special character I decided to ask the community.


If there never is a need for any other characters besides the basic ones, what would be the best use (for a programmer of course, this is SO) of unused keys? Something from the extended ascii table? Or purposefully leave them unused and do something cool with with AutoHotKey?


Solution

  • Yes, there is (at least one): APL

    Here is Conway's Game of Life written in APL:


    (source: wikimedia.org)

    It uses this keyboard mapping: