language aesthetics

[Erik Max Francis]

William Tanksley Google wrote:

> Have you used it? I've tried; my experience is that it's tons of fun
> to write, so much that rewriting a program in APL is as practical as
> reading a program in other languages.
> 
> However, I gave up because I couldn't stand the alphabet; APL uses
> MANY
> nonstandard characters. K fixes that; it uses only ASCII, and does so
> in a very clean way.

It's ironic that you're mentioning another single-letter language, when
the one next door, J, is the proper ASCIIfied successor of APL.

	http://www.jsoftware.com/
	http://WWW.CS.Trinity.Edu/Other_Attractions/j.html/

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