Even if you change the J operations to greek it would still be different
from most APLs
They are of course different from each other so the difference is not as
great with Sax as most of the others but even that would not help you much
having greek characters
The confusion of learning J is enough so that you would not add greek chars
in and the beauty of being able to use any editor and mix in with other
environments would be lost for many those using greek chars
I would consider this to be better left as 1.april
2006/4/2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> 2 April, 2006
>
> Well, I definitely don't consider this to be a 1st of April joke. The idea
> has crossed my brain many times not only for APL compatibility reasons,
> but
> every time I use a { instead of a } or I write := instead of =: or
> when
> I come up with {.@;:.,,]_ and it should have been [;@:,;_1"@ .... :-)
>
> If using Unicode for verbs and nouns would be allowed I myself would use
> fonts with really "expressive" characters like the SIL Yi and the SIL Vai.
>
> http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=SILYi_home
>
> http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=SILVai_Features
>
> New symbols that don't have any "predefined" meaning are easy to remember
> because they pop in to a "empty" place in your brain, it seems. At least
> they don't start a long association process every time you see them...
>
> I know that Ken thought that it was a mistake to use the Greek characters
> in
> APL. I think it was a mistake to think it was a mistake. But there will of
> course always be those who think it is a mistake to think it was a mistake
> to think it was a mistake...
>
> I miss those Greek characters because they are just as easy to remember as
> road signs. They don't have to be decoded or parsed. That's a good thing
> with road signs.
>
> Regards,
> Gerald
>
>
> --
> Gerald Mylog - a 5100 guy :-)
>
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