On Maw, 2004-07-13 at 23:42, Jeffrey Savit wrote: > David is quite right: several brokerages used APL quite heavily. They > would hire people out of business school and throw them into analytics > departments. When I started working with these guys I was aghast at the > idea of using interpreted APL for numerically intensive applications but > APL was by far the fastest way for them to express or revise a numerical > model. Some of them were strong programmers, others not: in one of the
APL hasn't exactly gone away, its just mutated 8) http://www.aplusdev.org/ http://wwwbio.leidenuniv.nl/~batenburg/wekapl.html#s9 Soliton have APL for Linux including S/390 http://www.soliton.com/sharp-linux.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
