On Mar 6, 9:11 am, phil chastney
<phil.hates.s...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Gosi wrote:
> > On Mar 4, 10:26 am, "Stephen Taylor <edi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>"
> > <StephenTaylorF...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> Dyalog has released Version 12 of its APL, which now supports Unicode
> >> for all character arrays.
> > <snip, snip>
>
> > It is interesting that there are two versions.
> > One Classic and one with Unicode.
>
> think about the alternative: supporting both string types within the one
> interpreter -- that would be a nightmare for design and implementation
> of the interpreter, and it would take forever to wean ASCII-only users
> onto Unicode
>
> Dyalog have taken the right decision, but instead of simply releasing
> enhanced Unicode versions without enhanced "classic" versions, it might
> be better received by their customer base if Dyalog were to announce an
> end-date for ASCII-only enhancements first
>
> Python 3 has taken a similar route, making all strings Unicode only, but
> with support for "byte streams", which is handy when you don't yet know
> what encoding the incoming stream uses
>
> Perl 6 was headed down a similar route, but development seemed to be
> mired in an over-ambitious design, and I haven't kept up with the story
>
> > Companies with operations in countries outside the english speaking
> > countries it will probably be quicker to embrace the Unicode version.
>
> companies with operations entirely within the English-speaking world may
> also find Unicode useful when they need to use a mathematical or
> technical symbol or two, or even a quotation in Foreign (it adds so much
> _style_, don't you think?)
>
> regads . . . /phil
>
> P.S: Python 3 also unifies the concepts of "type" and "object" -- that
> is such a *right* thing to do, I expect we shall similar developments in
> other languages
It has been interesting to watch the glacial speed of Unicode
adaptation.
I guess we have talked about Unicode for 20 years in this group.
I think that APL2 is all Unicode now if I remember correctly.
J supports Unicode.
It will be interesting to see if people use Unicode to translate
scientific mathematical notations directly to Apl.
Has anyone tried that?
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