[coldtea]

That while a new keyboard technology like touch surfaces that allows people to have the APL glyphs at their disposal will help increase adoption a little, APL will always remain a niche language.

It's not the "being able to type in the glyphs" that hurts it, as much as the reading them -- and the understanding of its concepts.

[agumonkey]

as I say below I agreed with the change of interface impacting user perception of apl.

I use a HP48 pocket calculator, that comes with Lisp/Forth (RPL to name it) system. The interface is live interaction with a stack and a bunch of direct screen shortcuts.

I felt it was almost as fun as using emacs with a good lisp configuration. All this with a handful of keys and one level deep keyword folders. I'd bet a dollar that the same thing with an APL system would make people enjoy the language right away.

[brudgers]

I did not say what you are arguing over.

[coldtea]

"I've a theory that APL might become increasingly attractive as touchscreen computing matures (part of the theory is that touchscreen computing is not mature)."

[brudgers]

Ah, everything.