On Friday, January 3, 2003, at 08:36 PM, Sean A Corfield wrote: > On Friday, Jan 3, 2003, at 13:48 US/Pacific, Dick Applebaum wrote: >> I can (could) write that program in 1 line! > > It was a one-liner (of course). > >> Ken Iversen is raveling in his grave :) > > That is a terrible pun that I suspect only APL fans will get. You're a > bad boy Dick! :)
I should have typed ","! I couldn't resist! As I recall, there was a APL interpreter on my first personal computer, an Apple ][. It used graphics to display the APL character set, but entering the characters took several keystrokes -- a real pain. I first used APL in 1968 (IBM White Plains -- Iverson developed APL at IBM Yorktown).. My manager at IBM thought it was a total waste of time. 6 months later all the IBM Headquarters were doing their budgets and forecasts with APL programs -- the forerunner of the first spreadsheets. I still have not seen anything with the power of APL and RPN made it a pretty easy language to understand and interpret. > MacWorld next week in SF... who's going? I am considering it, if I can get away -- are you going Sean? Will any CF people be in the Macromedia booth? Dick > > "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one > persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all > progress depends on the unreasonable man." > -- George Bernard Shaw > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
