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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: operator syntax, Unicode in strings
Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 01:22:46 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 27 May 2024 16:41:26 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote:

> It appears that Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid> said:
>>
>> Much of its syntax came from mathematics, which is international.
>>
>> Semi-related question: are there non-English equivalents for
>> mathematical operators like “grad”, “div” and “curl”?
> 
> Grad is written as a nabla, an upside down delta, div as nabla followed
> by a center dot, and curl as nabla followed by a multiplication sign.

That’s right, I’d forgotten about that.

> I happen to have a copy of "Algol 60 Implementation" published in 1963
> which describes the KDF9 Algol compiler in considerable detail. They
> considered the translation of the Algol publication language to the
> 5-bit paper tape code their computer used so trivial that they don't
> even describe it.

Only 32 code symbols? It must have used shifts, à la Baudot code. It 
probably was Baudot code.