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From another comment, it seems like it was invented to specifically support Japanese characters. It might have been the only scripting language for a while in J
by franciscop 9y ago
From another comment, it seems like it was invented to specifically support Japanese characters. It might have been the only scripting language for a while in Japan so it makes sense that it became popular over there.
- nandemo 9y ago> It might have been the only scripting language for a while in Japan No way. Perl used to be quite popular.
- franciscop 9y ago*with support for Japanese characters
- nandemo 9y agoWhat do you mean? Perl did have support for the (several) standard Japanese encodings.