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
APL was the first actual interactive language that I had the pleasure of using.
It sure beat card readers!
SmallTalk was fun in that once programmers made the conceptual jump to objects,
they really enjoyed programming in it. Maybe it was the sparsity of the
language as compared to C++ that
In my case, I was asked to help the Comptrollers (Air Force speak for
accountants) to optimize the code because they were using an IBM emulator on a
Honeywell 6800 and their APL programs were bogging down the entire system.
Oh, what tangled web we create, when first we try to emulate - or,
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
One could say:
thise.Day(Pine)
print.out(arg YANFL);
but the joke might not compile.
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Parks, Raymond rcpa...@sandia.gov wrote:
In my case, I was asked to help the Comptrollers (Air Force speak for
accountants) to optimize the code because they were using an
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. Though I am amused how the web has managed to go full circle.
Why do I say that, it seems
Having said that well I for one can only speculate why java has/had a
history of not caching on. Though I am amused how the web has managed to go
full circle.
Why do I say that, it seems as if the goal to applets and node is simillar
to: DHTML
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_HTML
DHTML,
