Got pretty good at reading STSC's APL+ without the APL symbols chip. There needs to be motivation.
On Dec 18, 2007 9:27 AM, Paul Gauthier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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<http://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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
