[Jprogramming] J Symbols

[Linda Alvord]

I imagine a toggle switch which moves me from ascii to a keyboard with only
corresponding glyphs for each J pair.  At first I would look at my code,
which I understand. Rather quickly, I imagine, I would read the translation
to new symbols.  

Soon, I would be prefer to type them on the glyph keyboard. Children read a
lot long before they write a lot. If the glyphs are carefully chosen, as
Skip suggests, handwritten mathematics will follow.

I have fond memories, and copies of some of the pages, that Ken wrote as we
were sitting on a couch and he explained a new idea.  He would show me a
better way to do what I was doing.

Linda



--s Raul
 
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:00 AM, William Tanksley, Jr
<wtanksleyjr at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ian  <earthspotty at gmail.com> wrote:
>> William Tanksley, Jr wrote:
>>> Humans don't process color with the same circuits that process text
>> Doesn't the Stroop Effect
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroop_effect suggest they do?
>> (Tightly-linked circuits, at least.)
>
> "Circuit" is perhaps a misleading term for what's going on -- but the 
> Stroop effect is what I was indeed referring to. My point is that when 
> you attempt to read a token that has both color and textual 
> information, you can't read both in one glance -- you have to look 
> once at the color, then look again at the text, then carefully think 
> about the two in isolation to make sure you don't mess them up, then 
> combine them to make sure you extract the correct meaning. It's a 
> slow, serial process that's inherently highly prone to cognitive 
> error.
>
> Therefore,
>
> -Wm
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