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2014-07-10 18:28 GMT+02:00 Robert Raschke <rtrlists@googlemail.com>:
>
> On 10 July 2014 01:03, Paige DePol <lual@serfnet.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> What other strange operators have been spotted in the wild?
>
>
>  Do APL
> (http://help.dyalog.com/14.0/Content/Language/Introduction/Language%20Elements.htm)
> or J (http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/vocabul.htm) count?

I love APL, and in this UTF-8 age, I predict it will
come back. You can try my Lua embedding of it [1].

I never got to grips with J. It's way past APL in semantics
but sticks to ASCII, leading to digraphs like `a.` and `a:` as
operators where APL used special symbols. I find it
fundamentally unreadable in a way that APL is not.
Now if those guys did J semantics with UTF-8 symbols
based on APL, then we would have a really Orth [2]
programming language.

[1] <https://github.com/dlaurie/lua-apl>

[2] <http://anathem.wikia.com/wiki/Orth>