Re: [xsl] XPath for expressing contiguous elements?

["Alan Painter alan.painter@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I still have my copy of "APL An Interactive Approach" by Gilman/Rose 1974.
I did APL on a Vector Graphics terminal with that great keyboard of all the
special symbols.

Curiously, met some APL developers at XML Summer School when I went a few
years back.



On May 1, 2017 11:21 PM, "Eliot Kimber ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.