Re: compiler for Chinese development language

Oliver Wong wrote:
(snip)

> For example, I am working on a programming language in which the
> division operation is represented by the unicode character U+00F7
> instead of the traditional slash character. I don't expect this
> language to ever become anything more than a toy language, though,
> because of the inconvenience of actually entering in the U+00F7
> character.

Character set may be one reason APL didn't succeed any better than it
did. WEll, that and it being hard to read, what some called a write
only language.

As far as a language without english keywords, though, APL would have
to be one, or pretty close to it anyway.

-- glen
[It's not just the character set. There's a successor to APL called
J that uses normal characters, and it hasn't caught on either. -John]


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