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I've been reading a bit about APL, and I can't find anywhere to buy one of the old APL keyboards. However, you can remap your existing keyboard to output APL sy
by profquail 17y ago
I've been reading a bit about APL, and I can't find anywhere to buy one of the old APL keyboards. However, you can remap your existing keyboard to output APL symbols for certain key combinations, which is how I think most people are using it these days.
EDIT: Picture of the keyboard layout:
http://www.users.on.net/~farnik/upload/APL2union.gif http://www.users.on.net/~farnik/upload/APL2union.gif
- coliveira 17y agoYou can also use J (http://www.jsoftware.com/ http://www.jsoftware.com/), which follows the same philosophy but uses only normal characters (all of them, in fact).
- michael_dorfman 17y agoMost people are using virtual keyboards, but Dyalog (in the warning on their website) mention that they sell APL keyboards.
- shaunxcode 17y agoActually you can purchase one here: http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/adcolkey.html http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/adcolkey.html they even provide different colors and special keys (windows key into a meta key etc.) - I have the dark grey one and I love it. You can also get APL stickers that fit onto any keyboard (I put them onto an hp 1000 laptop even) from here: http://hooleon.com/miva/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=OV-0132&Category_Code= http://hooleon.com/miva/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product... for about 15 dollars. They actually work really well - I would advise using a pair of tweezers to get them positioned exactly how you want because one they are on they are pretty permanent!
- sunkencity 17y agoWow! Now that looks like a keyboard map for some serious dark programming magic! Now I really want to put on my pointy hat and enter the astral planes of APL!