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> Maybe if Stallman or some early GNU participant had championed APL we'd all be either using APL or constantly excusing ourselves. I think the major issue is

by jolmg 5y ago

> Maybe if Stallman or some early GNU participant had championed APL we'd all be either using APL or constantly excusing ourselves. I think the major issue is that APL seems to require more than ASCII to work it.

wahern 5y ago
AFAIU APL implementations very early on supported ASCII equivalents. But maybe it was too late to either disabuse people of the notion that it required non-ASCII, or the convention proved too strong to overcome.
voldacar 5y ago
there are ascii variants of APL like j,q,k etc