Thanks Roger!
With these references and "Don't go there",
I reckon I'm content to drop the subject.
I can admire the APL chars as enlarged on
my wall. And for non-ugly J, I can just use
APL's ASCII font.
Pete
Roger Hui wrote:
From *Remembering Ken Iverson<http://keiapl.org/rhui/remember.htm#chars>*:
Example 0: For the first few months, the special APL characters and the
ASCII spelling co-existed in the system. It was Ken who first suggested
that I should kill off the special APL characters. I myself resisted for a
few weeks longer, until the situation became too confusing, for reasons
described in *J for the APL Programmer* [35, p. 11].
The referenced text can be found in *J for the APL
Programmer*<http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/j4apl.htm>,
Terminology and spelling.
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 5:30 PM, PMA<[email protected]> wrote:
Hmm. When you and Ken Iverson were gestating J, how close
to a toss-up did the ASCII-vs-APL-characters issue ever come?
Roger Hui wrote:
APL characters has conceptual _problems_. Suppose you invented a new
super
duper function or operator, but the existing chars in Unicode set don't
really fit, or don't fit at all. An enervating discussion then ensues on
how you denote this new function or operator.
For instance, how would you denote I. (interval index) or i: (index of
last)?
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