Gary Green wrote:
I tried APL once, back in 77. I thought it was the perfect programming language. One could write an entire program on/in one line of code. And, the part I liked best, no one could understand it and it "looked" like a computer programming language.
Back in the seventies I was in charge of the systems group at a service bureau. One of our customers was from a local university, running an APL application that tracked students vs. classes, and a few other things. It was gold mine - whenever it ran, the CPU went 100% busy and stayed that way for a long time. The same thing written in another language might have cost one or two percent as much.
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