That's because APL required a specific code-page under EBCDIC:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(codepage) .
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 12:15 AM, Don Guinn <dongu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My green card showed the EBCDIC character set and it did not include APL
> characters.
>
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2018, 8:37 PM Devon McCormick <devon...@gmail.com> 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 <
> > jose.mario.quint...@gmail.com> 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 <
> > c...@jsoftware.com
> > > >
> > > 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 <
> > > > jose.mario.quint...@gmail.com>:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 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 <rauldmil...@gmail.com>
> > > > 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
> > > > > <jose.mario.quint...@gmail.com> 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
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
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> forums.htm
> > > >
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> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Devon McCormick, CFA
> >
> > Quantitative Consultant
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>
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