Sed challenge: join cal -y months into a single column

Re:Sed challenge: join cal -y months into a single column by jolmg on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @10:00PM (#29261549)

> Maybe if Stallman or some early GNU participant had championed APL we'd all be either using APL or constantly excusing ourselves.

I think the major issue is that APL seems to require more than ASCII to work it.

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Re:Sed challenge: join cal -y months into a single column by wahern on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @10:04PM (#29261572)

AFAIU APL implementations very early on supported ASCII equivalents. But maybe it was too late to either disabuse people of the notion that it required non-ASCII, or the convention proved too strong to overcome.

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Re:Sed challenge: join cal -y months into a single column by voldacar on Thursday November 18, 2021 @12:36AM (#29262295)

there are ascii variants of APL like j,q,k etc

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