Re: [Maxima-discuss] Encoding of bold, underscored, subscripted and superscripted identifiers by wxmaxima

[Bill W. <wil...@co...>]

On Fri, 2015-12-11 at 14:40 -0800, Richard Fateman wrote:
   . . .
> Clearly the wide-spread adoption of a larger character set
> has made more elaborate notations possible, even if not
> really as convenient as it might seem.

Let's not forget the APL experience.  I used the APL dialect provided by
Control Data for their 6400/6600 series computers in 1974.  They encoded
APL operators by three-letter acronyms delimited by *, something like *RNK*
for the rank operator.  Reading a string of those was a treat and a half!
I don't think anyone successfully marketed a typewriter or terminal providing
the APL character set, though some tried (including, I think, IBM).
Still, APL seems to be alive and well.  Maybe notation does matter at that.

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Bill Wood