--- "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 ââ°Â¥ B â greater A >. B NB. greater > > > > â˧/ A â 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. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
