"Gosi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Oct 20, 10:46 pm, rbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Oct 15, 5:22 am, Mike Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Conference page >> > // with links to program details // >> > (updated Friday 10/12) >> >> > http://www.sigapl.org/apl2007.html... >> >> At APL2007, I'll be announcing the release of the APEX APL compiler, >> version 0.0.0, under GPL Version 2. >> If you can't wait until then, you can download it for Dyalog Linux >> atwww.snakeisland.com. >> >> Bob > > Congratulations on your compiler. > > I looked through your pages and came across this > > "[This article originally appeared in the ACM SIGAPL Quote Quad, vol. > 21, no.1, September 1990.] > > The APL character set has contributed, more than any other facet of > the language, to its lack of acceptance in the computing community at > large. The character set is a metaproblem -- not a problem in and of > itself, but a creator of other recurring problems of hardware, > software, ergonomics, and psychology. The adoption of new, ASCII-base > dialects of APL, such as J, is suggested as one solution to the > character set problem. " > > This is also the reason for why I will not be downloading your new > compiler until there will be a J version of it, something I hope will > be coming soon. > > I can not use the APL character set at all. > It is too mixed up with my national characters. >
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