APL is fairly obsolete now anyway. A more modern version of that language is J (www.jsoftware.com),
which does not use special characters. I've studied the language a bit, and it's quite interesting,
but it really doesn't offer much (anything?) over Haskell except a much terser notation and simpler
mutable array support. I'd stick to Haskell.
Mike
Peter Verswyvelen wrote:
Nice. Thanks for the info, but the symbolic notation is not the only
reason for using Haskell, it's also to force them into solving simple
problems without using mutable variables, so they see this alternative
functional programming approach BEFORE they are specialist in C++,
because then they will be in the blob zone ;-) Maybe APL is also a
functional language, but unfortunately I don't have the time to switch
to another language anymore. Besides, I'm addicted to Haskell now ;-)
Henning Thielemann:
I have read about APL that it uses a special character set in order to
get a more mathematical looking notation. Maybe your students should
check out this language?
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