On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 12:43:58 -0500, "Craddock, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> <warning: another old timer talking history; uninterested youngsters >can >> skip this message> >> >> Gosh, the APL ball. That brings back memories. > >Yep. I loved APL. I saw, but never used the selectric with the APL ball. >I only ever used 3277 and later terminals with the APL character set >built in - at considerable extra cost IIRC. > >I wrote tens of thousands of lines of APL code in one of my former >lives. Then I wrote almost as many again lines of assembler code for >auxiliary processors and external functions so I could use APL as a >sysprog sandbox and toolkit. It was pretty slick back in the day. Are we >a bunch of old wierdos or what? > >CC This discussion brings back lots of memories. My first exposure to APL was a presentation by Iverson at Rice University, followed by getting a chance to work on APL/5500 (yes, it was APL for a Burroughs B-5500, with a Model-33 teletype as the terminal). Oddly enough, only recently my wife unearthed (and had framed for me) an old APL poster that I *thinK* was put out by whoever it was that put out APL*PLUS (STSC?). It's a bowl of alphabet soup, where the APL character set is floating in what looks like tomato soup, with the caption M-M-M GOOD (naturally, in the usual italic APL font). When people look at it in my law office, they always say that it's a really pretty poster, but no one has ever heard of the language. Richard A. Schafer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
