Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
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From: hui@fid.morgan.com (Roger Hui)
Subject: Re: J is NOT APL (was Re: Interpreter advice sought.)
Message-ID: <1993Jan23.113019.23895@fid.morgan.com>
Organization: Morgan Stanley & Co., New York, NY
References: <1993Jan21.160604.7887@lth.se> <1993Jan23.100553.21973@lth.se>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 11:30:19 GMT
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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.
