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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!quadsys!roland
- From: roland@quadsys.com (Roland Besserer)
- Subject: Re: J is NOT APL (was Re: Interpreter advice sought.)
- Message-ID: <C1EIJn.I3@quadsys.com>
- Organization: QUAD Systems
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- References: <1993Jan23.113019.23895@fid.morgan.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 08:35:46 GMT
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- hui@fid.morgan.com (Roger Hui) writes:
- : Kurt Swanson writes:
- :
- : > ...
- : > In these days of fonts galore, graphical windows (of many types),
- : > postscript, and last but not least UNICODE, there is NO reason to
- : > switch to an antiquated 7-bit US standard.
- : > ...
- :
- : There are some simple tests of this assertion. For example,
- : try posting the text of an APL function to this news group,
- : using the system editor on your machine to construct the message.
-
- This is certainly not a valid point. To hopelessly confuse the syntax and limit
- it to agonizingly obscure sequences of punctuation characters for the sake
- of being able to post verbose sources is nonsense.
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- Roland Besserer QUAD Systems, Santa Cruz roland@quadsys.com
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