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

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

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>