Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 08:31 PM 2/28/03 -0500, Jim Sharkey wrote:
>>I was forced to take an APL course in college as part of NJIT's Statistics 
>>and Actuarial Science program at the time.  I can't say that I remember 
>>much about it; it was an introductory course.  I don't recall caring for 
>>it all that much.  I seem to remember it was very...brief, for lack of a 
>>better word, at least compared to the other languages I had been exposed 
>>to, like Pascal, Fortran, and COBOL.

>"Concise," is how I have heard it described.

Concise is an excellent adjective, IIRC.  You have to remember, though, this is some 
14 years ago.  But I believe that's an accurate description.  You could do *a lot* 
with very little code.

Jim


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