Talk:APL keyboard

APL keyboard
SoP much? -- Prince Kassad 21:35, 10 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Yes, like Japanese keyboard, Brazilian keyboard and ABNT-2 keyboard. --Daniel. 21:44, 10 February 2011 (UTC)


 * I think you could make an argument that it refers to a specific thing that cannot be broken down into the sum of its parts like soccer ball - the words soccer and ball don't describe its size, material, etc. That said, since I don't know the term I will abstain. Mglovesfun (talk) 13:25, 11 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Compound nouns provide hints toward meaning. The rules for constructing the meaning involve trying various possible semantic relations between the component words, assuming hearer/reader knows the component terms. "Keyboard made of APL"??? "Keyboard colored APL"??? "Keyboard for APL"? "Keyboard in APL language"?


 * Replace with pointing to APL (programming language). DCDuring TALK  13:39, 11 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Our current definition at soccer ball strikes me as SoP; it's any ball used for soccer, not just the 12-pentagon/20-hexagon ball. Of course, that would be saved by WT:COALMINE.--Prosfilaes 21:12, 11 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete; it's any keyboard specialized for APL, which is SoP, IMO.--Prosfilaes 21:08, 11 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Playing devil's advocate here, I've never heard of a keyboard made specifically for a programming language. If I didn't know better, I might have guessed that the top row started with the letters A-P-L. In reality instead, looking at the keyboard with all of its mathematical symbols you would have no idea that it's intended for programming. DAVilla 07:01, 17 February 2011 (UTC)


 * But, informed by a proper definition of APL, you might make the proper inference. I suppose if one would need encyclopedic knowledge about APL and was not getting one's information from an encyclopedic dictionary, then "APL keyboard" might be a lexical item. (See .) But your guess wouldn't have lead you to any reference work at all. DCDuring TALK 13:40, 17 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Fair enough. Delete. DAVilla 06:37, 24 February 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm probably the only Wiktionarian to have actually seen one in use - so I would vote to keep it, but not for any logical reason. (the programs are incomprehensible) SemperBlotto 13:44, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Failed RFD. Equinox ◑ 22:18, 17 July 2011 (UTC)