excellent info thanks so much Charles
Carmen
On 3/25/2022 2:02 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
I got into a discussion with a retired neighbor about this and he wrote me
I've written system software in assembly and C, when I was writing extensions
to APL interpreters, but found those languages so much less agreeable than
writing in APL that I switched to writing in another high-level
language--English--when I left the APL world. (I avoided C++ and C# and Java;
as a functional-programming fan, I dislike object-oriented languages.)
As to APL, even though it was originally a mathematical notation, its
applications were not limited to math analysis. Back when, I used it to write
database software, an editor, graphics software, airline scheduling software,
and many other things. But certainly it has never been practical for system
software except as a modeling tool (where it excelled).
He worked with Ken Iverson at IBM and then at I. P. Sharp. He mentioned three
APL-derivative languages, J, K and Q.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(programming_language) From there you can link
to the other two.
Charles
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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 )
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