> Horses for courses. I think the impressive thing about APL is that the > necessary operations were worked out (and used for Blackboard > demonstrations) /before/ it was converted into a computer language, and > by and large weren't added to. However the functional nature of the > language was vastly overrused, and students who thought they were being > smart would on occasion find themselves with mainframe runtimes of > /months/ because they'd created an enormous array instead of using a > simple control structure.
Yes, sure. But things slowly change in compiler/interpreter world. Now we have loop/streams fusion techniques and other devectorization tricks, so I think smart APL interpreter would be of real help here. > Nod here to Vector Pascal as well. And as a bit of history, the first > computer implementation of Iverson's notation was done at Stanford under > the watchful eye of Niklaus Wirth. Hm, I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing. Looks like computer scientist community was really small those days. Vector Pascal is much closer to our current discussion though :) -- Regards, Denis Golovan _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
