Thanks for sharing that. The partial table in the upper left corner of your note is Table 9 in *Formalism in Programming Languages<http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/FPL.htm> *(1964), or the table in Section 4.4 of *Some Uses of { and }*<http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=28322> (1987), or http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Symmetries_of_the_Square<http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Symmetries%20of%20the%20Square> .
The table from 1987 is reproduced below: ⊢ ⍒ ⍒⍒ ⍋⌽ ⌽ ⍋ ⍋⍒ ⍒⌽ ⍒ ⍒⍒ ⍋⌽ ⊢ ⍒⌽ ⌽ ⍋ ⍋⍒ ⍒⍒ ⍋⌽ ⊢ ⍒ ⍋⍒ ⍒⌽ ⌽ ⍋ ⍋⌽ ⊢ ⍒ ⍒⍒ ⍋ ⍋⍒ ⍒⌽ ⌽ ⌽ ⍋ ⍋⍒ ⍒⌽ ⊢ ⍒ ⍒⍒ ⍋⌽ ⍋ ⍋⍒ ⍒⌽ ⌽ ⍋⌽ ⊢ ⍒ ⍒⍒ ⍋⍒ ⍒⌽ ⌽ ⍋ ⍒⍒ ⍋⌽ ⊢ ⍒ ⍒⌽ ⌽ ⍋ ⍋⍒ ⍒ ⍒⍒ ⍋⌽ ⊢ On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Linda Alvord <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
