Hi David I've always been very fond of APL also -- and a slightly better and more readable syntax could be devised these days now that things don't have to be squeezed onto an IBM Selectric golfball ...
Cheers, Alan ________________________________ From: David Leibs <[email protected]> To: Fundamentals of New Computing <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, June 5, 2011 7:06:55 PM Subject: Re: Terseness, precedence, deprogramming (was Re: [fonc] languages) I love APL! Learning APL is really all about learning the idioms and how to apply them. This takes quite a lot of training time. Doing this kind of training will change the way you think. Alan Perlis quote: "A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing." There is some old analysis out there that indicates that APL is naturally very parallel. Willhoft-1991 claimed that 94 of the 101 primitives operations in APL2 could be implemented in parallel and that 40-50% of APL code in real applications was naturally parallel. R. G. Willhoft, Parallel expression in the apl2 language, IBM Syst. J. 30 (1991), no. 4, 498–512. -David Leibs
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