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>This is what your line becomes after being filtered by an ascii editor (my 
>main editor):

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in the email source everything was binary (binHex`d) encoded.

>If such is required for intelligent communication of J i personally do not 
>want to take that step.

>At this point in the language J`s evolution i would like to see it solidified 
>... in as many platforms as possible. That requires stability not 
>fragmentation in the base graphical structure.

>i _would_ however like to see innovation _inspired_ by J. That _could_ be the 
>design of a language which does take advantage of modern possibilities.

>Coming to mind is a 1.5 (like TeX) or 2D language (not successfully built 
>yet). J has some interesting constructs in its syntax. Those might see a true 
>flowering into a higher graphical level.

Higher dimensionality would make it very easy to consider more than
two  input streams. What are those possibilities, and how can they be
generated syntactically?

>i would hope that this concentration of energy we have here can be really used 
>for the next language (L?)

greg
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