I had several discussions with different people mostly old APL programmers about the APL symbols being so missed...
With today's technology one can easily (with motivation) build a unicode front end to J and customize it so that graphic characters of his/her choice would be used to write underlining J code. This graphic layer would probably be different for each person so somewhere along the lines one needs a dog's breakfast to hookup to his/her flavor of the day of special inspiring graphics. These criticisms are really showing differences in taste rather then substance. For instance, way back in time before J even existed, I was saying to a friend that I would not care to use series of colored spots to program in APL because what was important was what I could do with the underlying concepts concealed behind the APL symbols. Well, with J it is so much more so that I challenge anyone to come up with a nice set of graphics that would satisfies everybody. The dog's breakfast could very well be the basic ingredients to all the worlds meals recipes rather than a meal... ;O) Maybe someday, someone will come up with a graphic layer that would generate J code and it will catch up as a new fad, but for now the basic ingredients are sufficient to see the wonders one can cook. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of BobGraf Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 11:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Jchat] J readability Please see my comment in the Chat thread "Readible J" by James C. Field. Thank you, Bob from Boynton Beach, FL -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/J-readability-tp14345905s24193p14399835.html Sent from the J Chat mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
