I programmed in APL while at Xerox in the 70's. Although "dangerous" it was really fast to program in, especially as a domain specific language, so to speak. It got so that if you couldn't do a one-liner for anything you wanted to do, you'd be disappointed!
Interestingly enough, it was the Finance dept of Xerox that first started using it, and then it leaked into the labs where it went viral. SmallTalk was sorta the same, really great but hard to deploy initially, but really loved in the labs. -- Owen On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Parks, Raymond <rcpa...@sandia.gov> wrote: > It's analagous to pets - you raise them (sometimes) from bottle-feeding > and they live to old age - and they die long before you are ready. Sure, > there are the occasional turtles and parrots that outlive their owners - > COBOL has long outlived Grace Hopper - but most computer languages come and > go within their authors and certainly users professional lifetimes. > Sometimes you babysit somebody else's pet while they're on vacation or > something - the other thread on the cube comic points this out - only a few > of us have ever worked with SNOBOL (and we probably didn't like it that > much). I started with Algol, moved on to COBOL, assembled various > flavours, did some Fortran (various flavours), then CMS II (a regression), > C, C++, Java (swore at Grady), and then a succession of scripting languages > (none of which have stuck). My strangest language experience was A > Programming Language (APL) - oh the damage one can do in almost no code. > > Ray Parks > Consilient Heuristician/IDART Old-Timer > V: 505-844-4024 M: 505-238-9359 P: 505-951-6084 > NIPR: rcpa...@sandia.gov > SIPR: rcpar...@sandia.doe.sgov.gov (send NIPR reminder) > JWICS: dopa...@doe.ic.gov (send NIPR reminder) > > > > On Jul 11, 2015, at 8:41 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > > This is sorta sad: > > https://github.com/NetLogo/NetLogo/wiki/Applets > Applets: They're dead Jim. > > Sad mainly from a history standpoint: Java built a really fascinating > cross platform, VM based, language & libraries. > > JS is now the current winner. But then, there's Web Assembly which will > provide a path for all languages to replace JS in the browser and in > Node.js. > > Sigh. > > -- Owen > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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