On Jan 8, 2019, at 2:48 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Pew, Curtis G wrote on 1/8/19 3:05 PM: >>> On Jan 8, 2019, at 2:03 PM, Tony Thigpen wrote: >>>> >>>> "C is the first write-once, read-never language." >>> >>> Not even close; APL was around nearly a decade before C. >>> > Assembler? >
While it’s not easy or much fun, I’ve read and even understood a lot of assembler code. Now, I’ll admit that my only real exposure to APL was a two or three week module in my undergraduate physics lab in 1980 or ’81, but I do vividly remember working for hours on a program and then coming back the next day, looking at the two or three lines I’d written, and wondering what the *@$$! they were supposed to do. -- Pew, Curtis G [email protected] ITS Systems/Core/Administrative Services ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
