Bret Victor wrote: [...] > Sure enough, in his talks, Guy Steele says > something like, "Because C++ was limited to ASCII, it had to > do nonsensical operator overloading, such as using << for I/O. > But because we have all of Unicode available to us, we can > define more meaningful operators. We can define an I/O operator > with the Unicode symbol for a little picture of a printer." ⍎'⎕',∊N⍴⊂S←'←⎕←(3=T)⋎M⋏2=T←⊃+/(V⌽"⊂M),(V⊝"⊂M),(V,⌽V)⌽"(V,V←1⎺1)⊝"⊂M)' No, that's not line noise. That's an implementation of Conway's Game Of Life in one line of APL. I have yet to find any computer which can render all the symbols. (You can find a rendered version here: http://catpad.net/michael/apl/) -- ┌── ｄｇ＠ｃｏｗｌａｒｋ．ｃｏｍ ─── http://www.cowlark.com ─────────────────── │ "I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my │ telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to │ use my telephone." --- Bjarne Stroustrup
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