Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
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From:     Jeff Richards <jeff@AESYVR1.PWC.AES.DOE.CA>
Sender:   APL Language Discussion <APL-L@UNBVM1.BITNET>
Reply-To: Jeff Richards <jeff@AESYVR1.PWC.AES.DOE.CA>
Subject:  Re: A modest proposal
Message-ID: <9304201540.AA08809@unb.ca>
Organization: UofNB News Gateway, Fredericton, CANADA
Date:     Tue, 20 Apr 1993 08:38:53 PDT

>
> The first and only transliteration scheme that I learned for APL
> was on a xerox Sigma-seven? mainframe (1975ish).  The scheme was based on the
> fact that $ was available.  I remember
>   $I for iota
>   $R for rho
>   $REV   other primitives had longer, recognizable replacements
>   $ROT
>   $TAKE
>   $DROP
>

I worked for a while on a Univac/1100 mainframe and their APL did the same
thing.  While "different" after only a very short timespan, it was reasonably
easy to understand.  I think it's much better than using only one letter to
represent operators since multi-letter identifiers(e.g. $DROP) are clear and
obvious and don't require any guesswork as to what they mean.

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