See http://keiapl.org/anec/#emulator
----- Original Message ----- From: Robert Bernecky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 15:05 Subject: RE: [Jchat] J readability To: Chat forum <[email protected]> > On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 14:49 -0800, Joey K Tuttle wrote: > > > As regards APL characters. Seeing uppercase M overstruck > > by uppercase O doesn't really generate a very pretty > > icon for rotate, and grade up (H over M) was better than > > grade down (G over M)... When I did get a real APL type > > element, I too quickly fell in love with the graphics. > > I recall a comment in the APL\360 source code, likely > from Larry Breed or perhaps Roger Moore, muttering > about "... the dark, immoral side of visual fidelity." > > The comment headed up some code that handled overstrikes, > which enabled you to, e.g., form a rotate by typing > circle-backspace-verticalbar. The author had gone a > bit overboard in this area, and you could: > > form an E by overstriking L with F > form a diamond (much later, same code) by overstriking < with > > form a $ by overstriking S and | > form a ! by overstriking ' with . > and so on. Lots of laughs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
