Unicode standardizes the APL representation issue, and creates numerous other problems.
It also does not solve the font problems, but that is solvable in many environments. But there’s also the keyboard problem, and it’s almost routine that there’s no consistent documented approach there. Thanks, — Raul On Tuesday, June 12, 2018, Devon McCormick <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd like to amend (extend) a previous post: > > To the best of my recollection APL could be written with EBCDIC so why J? > - EBCDIC, to the best of my recollection, supported extended character > sets, sometimes through the use of "code pages". This severe, > vendor-specific, limitation of character representation ("since solved", > say some) was seen by Iverson and others as enough of a reason to try again > with a purely ASCII character set. This requires digraphs in order to have > sufficient tokens to specify a robust array-oriented computational > notation, which is what J is. > > > On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 6:07 PM, Jose Mario Quintana < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > My full reply is in the thread: [Jchat] J, APL, or calendars? > > > > On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 12:48 AM, 'Bo Jacoby' via Chat < > [email protected] > > > > > wrote: > > > > > mr Jose Mario Quintana remarks that stopwaches and odometers are > 0-origin > > > devices. Today is the 24th day in the 5th month in the 2018th year. The > > > ordinal numbers begin at "first". But a stopwatch would show that 2017 > > > years, 4 months and 23 days have passed. Cardinal numbers begin at > zero. > > A > > > J index shows how many array elements are skipped. This cardinal number > > is > > > confused with the ordinal number of the element. Centuries, decades, > > years, > > > months and days may be individually adressed by ordinal fractions. > > ORDINAL > > > FRACTIONS - the algebra of data. Thanks. Bo. > > > > > > | > > > | > > > | > > > | | | > > > > > > | > > > > > > | > > > | > > > | | > > > ORDINAL FRACTIONS - the algebra of data > > > This paper was submitted to the 10th World Computer Congress, IFIP > 1986 > > > conference, but rejected by the referee.... | | > > > > > > | > > > > > > | > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Den 1:12 torsdag den 24. maj 2018 skrev Jose Mario Quintana < > > > [email protected]>: > > > > > > > > > Forgive me but I find the present situation funny because, taken > > > literally, > > > one should conclude that currently "It is not yet considered ready to > be > > > promoted as a complete task, for reasons that" cannot be found. > > > > > > On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 6:48 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Indeed: you could create that talk page, if you felt that that was a > > > > good thing. Or, I could. Or anyone else who has registered on that > > > > site could. > > > > > > > > Meanwhile, "draft" means "the task description might change if people > > > > find significant problems with the current description". That does > not > > > > seem likely to happen in this case, but it's not like I have never > > > > been wrong... > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Raul > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 6:11 PM, Jose Mario Quintana > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >> Speaking of which, we don't yet have a J entry for > > > > >> http://rosettacode.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar > > > > > > > > > > There is a box on that page stating: > > > > > > > > > > French Republican calendar is a draft programming task. It is not > yet > > > > > considered ready to be promoted as a complete task, for reasons > that > > > > should > > > > > be found in its talk page. > > > > > > > > > > Hovering on "talk page" the following text pops up: > > > > > > > > > > Talk:French Republican calendar (page does not exist) > > > > > > > > > > :D > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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 > > > > > > -- > > Devon McCormick, CFA > > Quantitative Consultant > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
