Chris Mason wrote:
But the other language program couldn't have been written in one line of symbols. <g>
Reminds me of the one-line Pong look alike written in Basic that was published in PC Magazine around 1982 or so. It took longer to understand than to use.
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.
It's more likely that it was written to be elegant and concise, rather than efficient. E.g., using sparse matrices to avoid extra lines of code.
I'm not even sure on which machine he ran. We had a 360/65 for a long time, before upgrading to two 165s. I don't recall the assist feature - that might have been offered later on?
The closest to an "assist" we had was one terminal with the APL keyboard.
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