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From: roland@quadsys.com (Roland Besserer)
Subject: Re: J is NOT APL (was Re: Interpreter advice sought.)
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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
