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Canonical pronunciation for each character is a wonderful thing, and I use it all the time to discuss code. If there's one thing other projects should steal from Urbit, it's this.

Spoken programming languages FTW.

The pronunciations are no more exclusionary than learning Cyrillic, and the effort pays off.

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ShamelessC|6 years ago

That actually does sound really cool. I guess we get close to that with names for operators e.g. Python's walrus operator. I can definitely see it being nice to have that sort of granularity.

xg15|6 years ago

The pronunciations are no more exclusionary than learning Cyrillic, and the effort pays off.

Oddly, I have never been required to learn Cyrillic to use any of many, many other programming languages out there.

Grue3|6 years ago

People who don't use Latin alphabet have been forced to learn it to use pretty much any programming language out there.

1D843B67|6 years ago

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shpx|6 years ago

You can find the rest of the ASCII symbol names (there's 34 in total) here:

https://urbit.org/docs/tutorials/hoon/hoon-syntax/