From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Modify text appearance (put spaces after commas just for display) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 08:42:20 +0200 Message-ID: <86vak2ypir.fsf@zoho.com> References: <87tvzpx1qo.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> <861smt3j24.fsf@zoho.com> <20170926093255.GD1556@tuxteam.de> <86wp4l22du.fsf@zoho.com> <874lrnt64x.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> <20170928120955.GB11874@tuxteam.de> <867ewi22sb.fsf@zoho.com> <20170928171840.GC21363@tuxteam.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1506667388 2472 195.159.176.226 (29 Sep 2017 06:43:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 06:43:08 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 29 08:43:03 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dxp0p-0000Cc-79 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 08:43:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33899 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxp0w-00050W-Fu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 02:43:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57621) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxp0P-0004zi-Iu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 02:42:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxp0L-00012Q-Ku for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 02:42:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=51026 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxp0L-00011b-DN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 02:42:33 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dxp0B-0005qQ-5y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 08:42:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:hXhRkfY0aV37JQCQ34XwrwCyT6w= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114457 Archived-At: t wrote: > Those were the folks around Ken Iverson, of > APL fame. APL ("A Programming Language" or somtimes "Array Programming Language") from 1964. Iverson was the developer so I suppose he could :) J (1990) mentioned earlier is a combination of APL and FP/FL (Functional Programming, 1977; Function Level 1989) by John Backus. > I'm certain they could read code > like that (I can't). Sure you can, and write it as well, but for how long before your eyes and head would start to ache and your whole system communicate "don't do it" the minute you sit down by the keyboard? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573