tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454006.post4190873814613344541..comments2024-01-16T14:32:49.175+00:00Comments on Arcane Sentiment: What's so cool about APL?Arcane Sentimenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04144052171693893368noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454006.post-61782051986489867392011-12-15T05:10:00.057+00:002011-12-15T05:10:00.057+00:00Oh, you're right. Falkoff and Iverson's hi...Oh, you're right. Falkoff and Iverson's <a href="http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APLEvol.htm" rel="nofollow">history</a> says the first, experimental implementation was in 1965, but the popular APL/360 wasn't until 1966.Arcane Sentimenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04144052171693893368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454006.post-66735049132555908572011-12-13T15:47:14.144+00:002011-12-13T15:47:14.144+00:00I'm not sure if APL was around in 65. There m...I'm not sure if APL was around in 65. There may have been rumblings about "iverson notation" in academic circles. This topic on LinkedIn: "Happy Birthday: APL CLEANSPACE was saved 1966-11-27 17:53:59 (GMT-5)." points to that.<br /><br />One may think Perl has all these qualities, but it lacks regularity; the language is rife with gotcha's. My limited experience with Perl: it truly is a write-only language, not just code, but data. The result of an expression is irretrievable in a lot of cases.Randy A MacDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16270311836546574558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454006.post-45678224244951695282011-01-10T22:35:44.134+00:002011-01-10T22:35:44.134+00:00APL is alive and well
See www.Dyalog.com www.ap...APL is alive and well <br /><br />See www.Dyalog.com www.apl2000.com and www.microapl.co.uk<br /><br />Dyalog run an APL competition every year to encourage students to learn enough APL to solve a problem. They run User conferences most years.<br /><br />APL has changed - its worth another look.Michael@Hughes.uk.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454006.post-24265806778404689372010-12-21T04:41:38.777+00:002010-12-21T04:41:38.777+00:00Indeed. But some of us kids are looking back at hi...Indeed. But some of us kids are looking back at history to pick the good parts out. :)ehirdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01274306998660980484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454006.post-49859328702853196012010-12-15T15:41:50.011+00:002010-12-15T15:41:50.011+00:00Yes, APL has a really cool abstraction. Way after ...Yes, APL has a really cool abstraction. Way after its prime, I worked in the remains of I.P. Sharp, which was a huge APL power at one time. I was working in C, but there were still a lot of gifted APL veterans hanging around. I learned a lot of great tricks from them that I've since applied to other languages. A good abstraction transcends its initial language ...<br /><br />So much of what was learned in programming has been forgotten, as each new generation starts over again :-(<br /><br />Paul.Paul W. Homerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02349253120538728302noreply@blogger.com