Skip, Thanks for sharing this amazing piece about Bliss language! My favorite part was @ about 31:21 <radio segment> Commentator: She even told me that when she uses Bliss symbols she actually thinks differently. Shirley:Yes, definitely. Commentator: Really? Shirley: Definitely. Commentator: What, what's different? Shirley: Oh, I just think so much more about what a word means...and it's like poetry in its purest form. </radio segment>
This just reminded me of Ken Iverson's explanation of ravel ( http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APLQA.htm#ravel). I just started learning J a couple of years ago (I'd never even heard of APL before that!) and what I find most fascinating about it is that I think so much more about what a word (verb in J-speak or function/method in procedural/functional) means. In short, it has made me a better programmer in other languages (R/Julia and Python/Numpy). Thanks, Vijay. On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Skip Cave <[email protected]> wrote: > After reading the story of John Quijada's Ithkuil language > <http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/24/utopian-for-beginners> > (thanks Vijay!), I started following some interesting language links on the > web, and stumbled across this amazing but sad story about Charles Bliss' > Symbol Language <http://www.radiolab.org/story/257194-man-became-bliss/>. > The story is a podcast of an NPR Radiolab program about various kinds of > "Bliss", but the amazing story of the Bliss Symbol Language starts about > 5:27 into the podcast. I think the symbolic language piece was the main > topic of the podcast. Just goes to show you how a symbolic language can > change lives... ;-) > > Skip > > Skip Cave > Cave Consulting LLC > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
