Gerhard
But the other language program couldn't have been written in one line of
symbols. <g>
More seriously, it may be that the program was written with the assumption
that the processor on which it ran had an APL assist feature and your
service bureau machine lacked the feature.
Chris Mason
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From: "Gerhard Postpischil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 12:41 AM
Subject: Re: Non-Standard Mainframe Language?
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.
Gerhard Postpischil
Bradford, VT
new e-mail address: gerhardp (at) charter (dot) net
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