ACM SIGAPL / APL2007 Conference / Montreal / one week away

[Wade Ward]

"Gosi" <gosinn at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:1192954949.817248.242120 at y27g2000pre.googlegroups.com...
> On Oct 20, 10:46 pm, rbe <berne... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Oct 15, 5:22 am, Mike Kent <mk... at acm.org> wrote:
>>
>> > Conference page
>> >         // with links to program details //
>> >                 (updated Friday 10/12)
>>
>> >        http://www.sigapl.org/apl2007.html...
>>
>> At APL2007, I'll be announcing the release of the APEX APL compiler,
>> version 0.0.0, under GPL Version 2.
>> If you can't wait until then, you can download it for Dyalog Linux 
>> atwww.snakeisland.com.
>>
>> Bob
>
> Congratulations on your compiler.
>
> I looked through your pages and came across this
>
> "[This article originally appeared in the ACM SIGAPL Quote Quad, vol.
> 21, no.1, September 1990.]
>
> The APL character set has contributed, more than any other facet of
> the language, to its lack of acceptance in the computing community at
> large. The character set is a metaproblem -- not a problem in and of
> itself, but a creator of other recurring problems of hardware,
> software, ergonomics, and psychology. The adoption of new, ASCII-base
> dialects of APL, such as J, is suggested as one solution to the
> character set problem. "
>
> This is also the reason for why I will not be downloading your new
> compiler until there will be a J version of it, something I hope will
> be coming soon.
>
> I can not use the APL character set at all.
> It is too mixed up with my national characters.
>

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