I think it may not merely be a joke. I'm not a fan of APL ideograph, but if J
can allow names of nouns,verbs,... be unicode so that it becomes possible to use
Chinese or Greek as varaible names. Then it is easier for programmers with
difficulty in English. It is already possible to use Chinese as field names in
Foxbase and MS Access if I remember correctly.
In English it is natually to write
c^2 = a^2 + b^2
But I guess Chinese mathematician may prefer
弦^2 = 勾^2 + 股^2
With UTF8 already supported in J601, I think this is possible.
Kym Farnik wrote:
This was absolutely intendend as a 1 April item :-)
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