I'm not sure this is really such a good idea. J is its own language and mapping some J symbols to APL ones could be misleading. Also, as much as I like the look of APL, I'm happy not to deal with the continuing hiccups caused by the character set.
At last year's APL Moot, I showed my fellow mooters that I could cut and paste Chinese characters into an emacs session with no apparent problem but some of the APL characters from a website did not come over cleanly. On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Greg Borota <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
