As did I - of course, memories fade/distort in 40+ years, but I'm pretty
sure that iota was I (not i) and epsilon was E (not e)... Even such
simple things still cause confusion.
I did come to love the APL glyphs and spent many hours making fonts for
strange devices like the IBM 6670 laser printer/copier (strange machine)
and photo typesetting equipment, even presenting a paper about it at APL-91.
I have been watching this discussion and mostly smiling and wondering
why it deserves to be in the programming forum....
I have been tempted, several times, to make one comment and that is a
feeling that the APL character set was perhaps the single most important
reason for lack of widespread acceptance and use of APL...
On 2013/04/10 23:58 , Ian Clark wrote:
I learned APL without the benefit of the char set. Using both upper and
lowercase alpha plus spare punctuation it was possible to shuffle around a
mnemonically expressive pair of I/O tables. I can't remember how, except
that iota was i and epsilon was e. Of course.
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