--- "Miller, Raul D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Oleg Kobchenko wrote:
> > APL has the advantage of expressing many terms in one
> > symbol, and it uses familiar intuitive symbols instead 
> > of new ones that need to be learnt.
> > 
> >    A ≥ B  ⍝ greater        A >. B  NB. greater
> >   
> >    ∧/ A   ⍝ reduce And     *./A    NB. insert And
> 
> I'm seeing, for the left side:
> 
> A (inflected a)(unknown)(yen) B (inflected a and two quads) greater
> 
> (inflected a)^(section)/ A (inflected a and two quads) reduce And
> 
> 
> Presumably, on an appropriately configured system with an
> appropriate mail reader, I'd see something nice there.
> However, on my system, the J version is much easier to read.

Yeah. But it may not be necessarily one for all
purposes kind of solution. This APLized view can
be used in a controled desktop setting.

This approach of multiple views of the source code
is used in SmallTalk, for example. They have an ASCII
view and then a styled view, which besides syntax highlighting
uses a limited number of symbols, such as an arrow for asignment.



 
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