What Might Adding Emojis and Pictures To Text Programming Languages Look Like?

theodp writes: We all mix pictures, emojis, and text freely in our communications. So why not in our code? That's the premise of 'Fun With Python and Emoji: What Might Adding Pictures to Text Programming Languages Look Like?' (two-image Bluesky explainer; full slides), which takes a look at what mixing emoji with Python and SQL might look like. A GitHub repo includes a Google Colab-ready Python notebook proof of concept that does rudimentary emoji-to-text translation via an IPython input transformer.

So, in the Golden Age of AI -- some 60+ years after Kenneth Iverson introduced the chock-full-of-symbols APL -- are valid technical reasons still keeping symbols and pictures out of code, or is their absence more of a programming dogma thing?

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