Here are some copies of notes that Ken made over the years.
http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/KenIversonNotes-LindaAlvord Linda -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of William Tanksley, Jr Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 12:45 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] J Symbols Skip Cave <[email protected]> wrote: > Raul, > Who said that ASCII English was ideal? I do. I know, I like the idea of optionally displaying glyphs -- the proof-of-concept was convincing. But ASCII is a _fundamental_ of computing right now -- no matter what we might have 5 years later, it's what we have now. > Here's the sentence "I do not see why this should be an ideal" in Mandarin. Interesting choice. You know Mandarin, then -- so you know how hard it is to learn to write the Chinese (and Japanese) ideographs. So very many symbols, so many subtle parts of a symbol, and so many different possible logics by which a symbol COULD be composed -- but most of them don't lead to intelligibility. Compare this to Romanji -- if you know how to speak the word, you (almost) know how to write it, and fairly simple software will find the correct symbol for you if you don't want to be published in Romanji. > Skip -Wm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
