> there has also been a lot of discussion in the past 1-2 months about > K, a successor to APL, in #plan9. you might ask there; i may have > missed a more recent development.
could someone please explain to the ignorant, what is interesting about apl? the last surge of interest i recall in the language was in 1983. ibm offered an rom for the mga (monochrome graphics adapter) that substituted the odd apl characters for the equally-odd pc character set's bucky-bit characters. - erik
