I don't want to keep dragging this thread around but I always wonders
what APL was used for? or what maybe our IBM guys was doing 8 hrs a day
on an APL terminal )
Carmen
On 3/25/2022 1:10 PM, Tony Harminc wrote:
On Thu, 24 Mar 2022 at 14:10, Pierre Fichaud<[email protected]> wrote:
At our college, we had an APL terminal.
I wrote a couple of programs.
A very powerful language and quite cryptic.
Programs were coded in RPN, weren't they?
Not RPN, but APL has no operator precedence, so if you expect 3+4x2 to
come out to 24 rather than 14, you'd need some brackets.
Tony H.
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