Re: Plain ASCII? (Was: PIL 3rd electronic version)

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2013/5/15 steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com>:
>
>> Glad I don't have to maintain that ;) There's something so reassuring
>> about plain ASCII. For a few weeks I was an APL head at university but
>> in retrospect it seemed more like an indoor sport that a programming
>> language.
>
> It's not the hieroglyphics that makes APL arcane for outsiders.
> It's the different mindset.
>
> For the APL mindset together with plain ASCII, try J.
>
>     quicksort=: (($:@(<#[), (=#[), $:@(>#[)) ({~ ?@#)) ^: (1<#)
>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_%28programming_language%29>
>

Reminds me of programming with trigraphs in C.

I, for one, like the CONCEPTS of APL, but prefer a more readable
syntax. J doesn't do it for me. :P

/s/ Adam