Let's take this to the chat forum... (I'm composing for the chat forum now.)
Thanks, -- Raul On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 2:00 PM, PMA <peterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu> wrote: > I'd love to hear -- putting aside implementation issues, people's aversion > to the unfamiliar, and what is or isn't ugly -- how the list members would > expect adoption of APL chars to impact (enhance/ruin/...) J. > > > Roger Hui wrote: >> >> I love the APL chars as much as the next guy. Some people would argue >> that >> APL chars are no longer a problem, but recent experience with my Samsung >> tablet indicates otherwise. >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Raul Miller<rauldmil...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Maybe I should be doing this in a different forum? It's hard to >>> anticipate if or where conversation will go. >>> >>> Anyways, http://www.johndcook.com/symbols/2014/02/apl/ reminded me to >>> think about the tradeoffs involved in J's design: >>> >>> thru=: [ + 1 i.@+ -~ >>> 10 thru 20 >>> 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 >>> u: 16b2336 thru 16b237a >>> ⌶⌷⌸⌹⌺⌻⌼⌽⌾⌿⍀⍁⍂⍃⍄⍅⍆⍇⍈⍉⍊⍋⍌⍍⍎⍏⍐⍑⍒⍓⍔⍕⍖⍗⍘⍙⍚⍛⍜⍝⍞⍟⍠⍡⍢⍣⍤⍥⍦⍧⍨⍩⍪⍫⍬⍭⍮⍯⍰⍱⍲⍳⍴⍵⍶⍷⍸⍹⍺ >>> >>> ASCII is horribly ugly, the world still has not caught up to APL's >>> character set. >>> >>> Sometimes, retro is the right choice. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> -- >>> Raul >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
