Problems of Symbol Congestion in Computer Languages

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On Mar 1, 6:01 pm, Mark Thomas <m... at thomaszone.com> wrote:
> I know someone who was involved in creating a language called A+. It
> was invented at Morgan Stanley where they used Sun keyboards and had
> access to many symbols, so the language did have set symbols, math
> symbols, logic symbols etc. Here's a keyboard map including the
> language's symbols (the red characters).http://www.aplusdev.org/keyboard.html
>
> I have no idea if this language is still in use.

Runs (ok limps) under debian/ubuntu -- see http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/aplus-fsf

My own attempts at improving the scene http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AplInDebian

If anyone has any further findings on this, I'd be happy to know.