The URL got lost:  *My Favorite APL Symbol
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On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Roger Hui <[email protected]>wrote:

> > That brings up an interesting question... How DID the APL character set
> get
> > designed? Some IBM graphic designers? Ken? Who?
>
> I believe it was Ken Iverson.  It can not have been a mere graphic
> designer because the design is too exquisitely good for that.  Some
> discussions on the topic:
>
> *The Design of APL <http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APLDesign.htm>*(section 
> 2).
>
> *APL\360 History <http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/apl360history.htm>*.
>  Search for "design of the typ" [sic], two occurrences.
>
> *APL Quotations and 
> Anecdotes*<http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APLQA.htm#mnemonic>,
> starting at the exchange between Brooker and Iverson.
>
> *My Favorite APL Symbol*​
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Skip Cave <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> As Eric has pointed out, J has carefully picked related pairs of ASCII
>> characters which graphically show the connection between related
>> functions.
>> APL did this as well. The problem arises when we realize that there are
>> many J primitives in related groups which don't have any APL characters
>> that would fit, and neither are there any sets of unicode glyphs which
>> have
>> the appropriate graphical characteristics that would suggest that
>> relatedness.
>>
>> It is clear. To do the J-to-single-glyph conversion right we would need
>> some new glyphs. That would likely require an expert graphical designer
>> who
>> was also either a mathematician or a programmer, who could express the
>> functionality AND the relatedness of related primitives in a single glyph.
>> Good luck with that.
>>
>> It could be done by someone with the right skill set, but who (or what
>> group of people) would that be?
>>
>> That brings up an interesting question... How DID the APL character set
>> get
>> designed? Some IBM graphic designers? Ken? Who?
>>
>> Skip
>>
>>
>> Skip Cave
>> Cave Consulting LLC
>>
>
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