alt Hacker NewsI wonder if EWD would have had the same opinion if he were alive today, with every Unicode font having the APL characters immediately available on the screen.
Did he feel the language design was bad, or would having TTF fonts being able to show "rho", "iota", "grade up" have removed one or more of his objections?
Oh, he would definitely hate it even more. It was too high-level for his taste.
What I would like to know is how he would bend Algol 60 if he had tablet with pencil that could evaluate it in real-time.