"Guillermo J. Rozas" <[email protected]> says:
>APL also uses an extended character set for terseness.
>Why? Because of transmission costs, not because it makes it easier
>to read.
\begin{APL-fanatic-mode}
I don't think transmission costs are the reason. When Iverson wrote
_A Programming Language_ he was envisioning a talk-on-paper language,
not an executable language; that came later. The APL character set
was supposed to mimic mathematicians' chalkboard language, iirc.
\end{APL-fanatic-mode}
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