QuadAV Considered Harmful -- Still 
<p>[This article originally appeared in the ACM SIGAPL Quote Quad, 
vol.21, no.1, September 1990.]

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The APL character set has contributed, more than any other facet of
the language, to its lack of acceptance in the computing community at large.
The character set is a metaproblem -- not a problem in and of itself, but a
creator of other recurring problems of hardware, software, ergonomics, and
psychology. The adoption of new, ASCII-base dialects of APL, such as J, is
suggested as one solution to the character set problem.

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