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Interesting news about WPF. But I'd be happier if some of the more intelligent end of the controls were in APL, to avoid being deafened by the 'echoes'... For example, if you just set ;shout' events, you'll need something to stop the loop:- Item-A shouts 'XXX' which is picked-up by Item-B, which ...

As Christmas is approaching, I thought I'd send Santa's IT support a couple of requests... 1. A new ⎕SET (or something) to replace currently awful WS constructs so assigning a known value to an unknown name goes from: value←911 'Yes' 'No' ⍎varname,'←value' to varname ⎕SET value 2. A more controlled ' ...

Actually, I'm becoming quite fond of the old mainframe idea of single arguments - because each one can (should?) now be a collection object, either GUI form or normal namespace. True, instead of var1 var2 var3 {gets} RA , you would now have to change the entries to RA.var1 But think of the power you ...