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by buzzkillington 2290 days ago
Writing APL (or J/K) with the ascii character set is like coding C in Morse code.

I wrote plenty of J code for my masters in particle physics and the only way I could use it without going insane was to write a noweb filter for literate programming when using latex symbols for the functions. The woven document was close to mathematics, the actual source code was editable source code.