I think it might be a quicker path to use ASCII behind the scenes still but have some editor/term software (Visual Studio in this case) display words of interest as APL symbols. Like in MS Word where you type (c) and it's automatically displayed as Copyright Symbol ©.
This could even be an Options settings where one could turn it on and off. I think this is doable with reasonable effort with Visual Studio, but I am thinking the idea could be used with Qt or GKT also. Unless I am missing something which I might see only after starting the actual implementation :-) I am very new to APL land, but I really liked the APL symbols. When I first started with computers I was puzzled why math symbols were not used by C (C was my first higher level language after Assembly)... On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 12:41 PM, PMA <[email protected]> wrote: > What a wonderful idea! I wish I had > the competence & time to pursue it. > > Pete > > > J. Patrick Harrington wrote: > >> ... My dream would be to have J expressible in APL-like >> >> characters (there isn't a one-to-one correspondance, though most symbols >> could be carried over). Then J could have two >> forms, like hieroglyphic and demotic Egyptian: ASCII J for use >> in emails & everywhere, and APL-like J for use on your main >> machine: more compact and beautiful to look at. I really hope >> that such a project gets under way. >> > ------------------------------**------------------------------**---------- > For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/**forums.htm<http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
