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Welcome × 11. There have been some developments in character sets since the 60s, not that you’d know from our programming languages.


Sadly, there has been comparatively few developments in keyboard hardware and input schemes since the 60s.


Huh?

On DE-International that is on [AltGr]+[Shift]+[,]: ×


Julia has support for unicode in the language (unicode identifiers, etc) and even has some operators/functions (they are the same thing in julia) aliased as their usual symbols, like "in" is aliased to "∈".

[0] http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4/stdlib/collections/...


That doesn't look very different from the letter x though, I think I'd still prefer the asterisk even if there was a × button on my keyboard.


There has been a × key on the normal PC keyboard since 1986, on the numeric keypad section.


[citation needed] I'm looking at my 1992 Model M right now and it has just a "*", unless you count "+" as a lopsided "×".


Depends on the manufacturer – some, like a Keytronic I can see from here, definitely have a × glyph.




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