Re: operator syntax, Unicode in strings

On Mon, 27 May 2024 16:41:26 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote:
 

It appears that Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid> said:

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Much of its syntax came from mathematics, which is international.
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Semi-related question: are there non-English equivalents for
mathematical operators like “grad”, “div” and “curl”?

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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.