I'd love to hear -- putting aside implementation issues, people's aversion
to the unfamiliar, and what is or isn't ugly -- how the list members would
expect adoption of APL chars to impact (enhance/ruin/...) J.
Roger Hui wrote:
I love the APL chars as much as the next guy. Some people would argue that
APL chars are no longer a problem, but recent experience with my Samsung
tablet indicates otherwise.
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Raul Miller<[email protected]> wrote:
Maybe I should be doing this in a different forum? It's hard to
anticipate if or where conversation will go.
Anyways, http://www.johndcook.com/symbols/2014/02/apl/ reminded me to
think about the tradeoffs involved in J's design:
thru=: [ + 1 i.@+ -~
10 thru 20
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
u: 16b2336 thru 16b237a
⌶⌷⌸⌹⌺⌻⌼⌽⌾⌿⍀⍁⍂⍃⍄⍅⍆⍇⍈⍉⍊⍋⍌⍍⍎⍏⍐⍑⍒⍓⍔⍕⍖⍗⍘⍙⍚⍛⍜⍝⍞⍟⍠⍡⍢⍣⍤⍥⍦⍧⍨⍩⍪⍫⍬⍭⍮⍯⍰⍱⍲⍳⍴⍵⍶⍷⍸⍹⍺
ASCII is horribly ugly, the world still has not caught up to APL's
character set.
Sometimes, retro is the right choice.
Thanks,
--
Raul
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