It looks like, if Ibm reading the Wikipidea entry for APL correctly:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_syntax_and_symbols

During my IBM new-hire orientation they asked how many of us had written
one-line APL chess programs. About 4 people out of the 100 or so in the room
raised their hands.

Cheers,

E.

--
Eliot Kimber
http://contrext.com



On 5/1/17, 4:15 PM, "John Lumley john@xxxxxxxxxxxx"
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

    An APL-> XSLT compiler..... Now there's a challenge ! Did the APL
character set ever get defined in Unicode?

    J

    Sent from my iPad

    > On 1 May 2017, at 21:49, Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
    >
    > On the other hand even experienced APL programmers had difficulty
    > maintaining their programs at times... :) so I prefer using the named
    > axes.