I wrote:

>   *  Originally, APL was only a notation, but because it was 
>      rationalized, it was amenable to computerized execution;
>      and so an interpreter was built for it. The effect was
>      that as the notation developed, much attention was
>      paid to maintaining and increasing that amenability, with 
>      the results you see today.

I should have pointed out that SMN has enjoyed no such history.*

>   *  Many members of the J community are mathematically-minded 
>      and take interest in teaching math.  Several have used J
>      with success in that endeavor.  How?

>   *  KEI, whom you admire, invented APL (and its later dialect J)
>      as a rationalized, simplified revamping of (some parts of)
>      SMN.  

And that KEI himself took great interest in teaching math to children.  I
believe it was his great hope that J (his second attempt at APL) would be
used in that capacity; certainly he specifically added several features to J
for that purpose.

You wrote:
>  I am now leaving you to that discussion. I have nothing to add.

Then, I predict, neither do we.

-Dan

*  Maybe I should take to calling it CMN, for conventional or common math
notation, because it certainly isn't standardized....

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