Wow, these are such great ideas. I only thought of the ASCII to symbol display conversion, didn't think of the other possibilities. Especially about speaking your programs. My hands start to have problems from the too much keyboard typing, speaking my programs would be so desirable at this stage... With Visual Studio integration I am working on, at least the part with entering ASCII but displaying symbols would take a reasonable amount of effort (reasonable from the perspective of something you do on your own time, besides the day job). And it could be an option you turn on and off.
The part that I would not be able to tackle though is designing the actual symbols and then implementing the font. That's why I mentioned APL symbols because fonts for those are already found around, so I could have had a proof of concept at least. Just to have the ball rolling, in case there was interest. I am not that much artistically gifted so if others work on designing the symbols and then the respective fonts, I would use that. But just display, if you copy/paste, what you'd get would still be ASCII. And also your saved file would still be a normal J ASCII file. That I think is the quickest/easiest path to have something that works given that current J engine expects ASCII. In the editor I use you have a display view and a data buffer. So it's easy to show one thing but let your real program code be something else. On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 3:42 AM, Skip Cave <[email protected]> wrote: > P.S, > > If each symbol is given a unique name, we could simply SPEAK our programs > into our editor. > > Skip > > -- > Skip Cave > Cave Consulting LLC > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
