Notation as Tool of Thought [1] is worth reading. I always felt Ken Iverson took the wrong path in developing J. I think it was a case of wanting to fit a squ

Notation as Tool of Thought [1] is worth reading. I always felt Ken Iverson took the wrong path in developing J. I think it was a case of wanting to fit a square peg into a round hole: Doing a non-ASCII character set was very hard back then. In leaving symbols behind he destroyed the very thing he so eloquently examines in this important paper. [1] http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~jzhu/csc326/readings/iverson.pdf http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~jzhu/csc326/readings/iverson.pd...