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Most of APL's glyphs cannot be represented in [[wikipedia:ASCII|ASCII]], now considered a "standard" or "basic" character set, but all of them are included in [[Unicode]], as one goal of Unicode was to unify existing character sets. In fact, [[Ken Iverson]] first began using [[Iverson notation|his notation]] before work on ASCII began, and [[APL\360]] was implemented before the modern ASCII standard was published in 1967. Prior to the widespread adoption of Unicode, many [[wikipedia:Digital encoding of APL symbols|special purpose code pages]] were used to represent APL symbols. APLs developed more recently, such as [[NARS2000]] and [[GNU APL]], use Unicode characters to represent glyphs, sometimes supporting several different options for a given glyph. Unicode also offers the possibility of introducing glyphs that could not have been produced on older APL systems: for example, both [[NARS2000]] and [[dzaima/APL]] use <source lang=apl inline>√</source> for the [[Square Root]] and [[Root]] functions. | Most of APL's glyphs cannot be represented in [[wikipedia:ASCII|ASCII]], now considered a "standard" or "basic" character set, but all of them are included in [[Unicode]], as one goal of Unicode was to unify existing character sets. In fact, [[Ken Iverson]] first began using [[Iverson notation|his notation]] before work on ASCII began, and [[APL\360]] was implemented before the modern ASCII standard was published in 1967. Prior to the widespread adoption of Unicode, many [[wikipedia:Digital encoding of APL symbols|special purpose code pages]] were used to represent APL symbols. APLs developed more recently, such as [[NARS2000]] and [[GNU APL]], use Unicode characters to represent glyphs, sometimes supporting several different options for a given glyph. Unicode also offers the possibility of introducing glyphs that could not have been produced on older APL systems: for example, both [[NARS2000]] and [[dzaima/APL]] use <source lang=apl inline>√</source> for the [[Square Root]] and [[Root]] functions. | ||
While [[Iverson notation]] was originally handwritten, the choice of glyphs to include in the first APL implementations was influenced by technical constraints of the typewriters used at the time. Notably, many glyphs were produced by overlaying two simpler glyphs, a technique known as [[overstrike|overstriking]]. The original glyph shapes in [[A Programming Language]] were drawn by [[Ken Iverson]]'s wife, Jean Iverson.<ref> | While [[Iverson notation]] was originally handwritten, the choice of glyphs to include in the first APL implementations was influenced by technical constraints of the typewriters used at the time. Notably, many glyphs were produced by overlaying two simpler glyphs, a technique known as [[overstrike|overstriking]]. The original glyph shapes in [[A Programming Language]] were drawn by [[Ken Iverson]]'s wife, Jean Iverson, using a [[wikipedia:Keuffel and Esser|Keuffel and Esser]] Leroy [[wikipedia:Technical_lettering#Mechanical_lettering|lettering set]].<ref>[[Roger Hui]]. [https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APLQA.htm#Jean_Iverson APL Quotations and Anecdotes]. [[J]]software.</ref> | ||
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