Post #2396815
2026-05-10 21:13 UTC
the eu sovereignty programming language
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@darkwiiplayer@tech.lgbt 2026-05-10 21:20
@amy@mastodon.fibercut.org my coworker wrote a ruby library that used € as a variable prefix mirroring the builtin $ for globals and, of course, there quickly was an issue that it was too difficult to type on non-eu layouts xD
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@electropict@mastodon.scot 2026-05-10 22:42
@amy@mastodon.fibercut.org Reminder that it's pronounced "string". (If you started in 1970s BASIC, anyway.)
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@niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be 2026-05-10 23:12
@amy@mastodon.fibercut.org Japanese computers had that since the 1980s (for path separators and escape characters)