APL was miserable on the QWERTY card punch. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2019 5:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Unreadable code (Was: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue)
Careful, *@$$! Probably does something in APL :) > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Pew, Curtis G > Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2019 1:01 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Unreadable code (Was: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch > issue multitasking issue) > > On Jan 8, 2019, at 2:48 PM, Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc- > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Pew, Curtis G wrote on 1/8/19 3:05 PM: > >>> On Jan 8, 2019, at 2:03 PM, Tony Thigpen wrote: > >>>> > >>>> "C is the first write-once, read-never language." > >>> > >>> Not even close; APL was around nearly a decade before C. > >>> > > Assembler? > > > > While it’s not easy or much fun, I’ve read and even understood a lot > of assembler code. > > Now, I’ll admit that my only real exposure to APL was a two or three > week module in my undergraduate physics lab in 1980 or ’81, but I do > vividly remember working for hours on a program and then coming back > the next day, looking at the two or three lines I’d written, and > wondering what the *@$$! 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN DISCLAIMER: This email and any attachments may contain confidential information that is intended solely for use by the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient, you are strictly prohibited from disclosing, copying, distributing or using any of the information contained in the communication. If you received this email in error, please contact the sender by reply email and immediately delete the communication. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
