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		wtetzner on April 25, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “What part of Milner-Hindley do you not understand... I believe Fortress used Unicode identifiers quite extensively. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_(programming_language)

riffraff on April 25, 2013 [–]

I believe you misremember. From what I recall fortress had an ascii syntax where special combinations would be translated into symbols by the doc/rendering system, eg NN would be rendered as (bold N used for natural numbers).

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