--- John Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tracy Harms wrote:
> > I ask because it came to mind as I read "Good Ideas,
> > Through the Looking Glass" by Niklaus Wirth.
> ......
> > http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/~wirth/Articles/GoodIdeas_origFig.pdf
>
> Surprisingly for this sort of article, APL got off with just a slap on the
> wrist (p. 13):
>
> [quote]
> A similar break with established convention was the postulation of
> operators being right-associative in the language APL in 1962. x+y+z now
> suddenly stood for x+(y+z), and x-y-z for x-y+z. What a treacherous
> pitfall!
> [/quote]
How a man handles himself on the football field
says a lot about his character.
With no disrespect, it seems like the author remained in the
Programs=Algorithms+Data (st)age of development. Though it brought
about some memories. I was taken back to first year programming
course where being bored out of existense with the teacher
pronouncing /pr`ocedure/, I started poking around the lab
computer and found Lisp, which made my day then. But not today,
the goal of this article was to dig out some interesting ideas,
but I failed to see any. Did anyone?
____________________________________________________________________________________
8:00? 8:25? 8:40? Find a flick in no time
with the Yahoo! Search movie showtime shortcut.
http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#news
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
