> FWIW - Ken Iverson, the father of APL, has created another language > called "J" which has all the power of APL without the need for the > "special symbols". > > http://www.jsoftware.com/
Yeah, J is pretty cool. Beats Matlab up one side and down the other. > IIRC, APL was originally designed to concisely write algorithms for > mathematical papers and not as an implementation on a computer. And > mathematicians were already using those "weird symbols". Yeah, but the *engineers* weren't using them in programming, and Real Math for publication was still being typset by hand, mostly. Twas a very rare terminal that had an APL character set PROM, or that had a downloadable character set buffer. -- db ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
