Roger wrote:
>  When Ken was designing APL (J), I don't think he
>  thought in terms of "information density is good".

Would you agree if I used the more a more description, such as "concision",
"brevity", or "succinctness is power"?

>  The choice was + (or "plus") vs.
>  plus plusvector plusmatrix plusrank3

>  APL and J opt for the one symbol.

Yes, this is what I meant, but you expressed it better.

-Dan



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