Love to have my Selectric in a desk APL terminal again.
-pete
On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 2:02 PM, dwight via cctalk
wrote:
> To my knowledge, there is only one person that claims to
>
> have a cartridge for the APL on the VideoBrain. He considers it
>
> more valuable than
On 2017-04-14 5:02 PM, dwight via cctalk wrote:
To my knowledge, there is only one person that claims to
have a cartridge for the APL on the VideoBrain. He considers it
more valuable than gold and won't let anyone look at it or
dump its contents.
I never understood this self-defeating
At SMECC we have a very curious laptop with a little tape drive in it
that seems to take small dictation size tapes. The little laptop has a
rounded top to it. Mfr name on tip of tongue ... but ...
It live in one of the Glass chasses .. wonder how scarce they are?
only seen the
To my knowledge, there is only one person that claims to
have a cartridge for the APL on the VideoBrain. He considers it
more valuable than gold and won't let anyone look at it or
dump its contents.
Such code running on a VideoBrain would surely warrant the /S
label for "Small".
Without some
On 04/14/2017 08:09 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
> For that matter, APL itself also still exists, the OpenAPL open
> source implementation for example. Works nicely.
...but reduced to a marginal language. I wonder if there's any JOVIAL
still in use...
--Chuck
> On Apr 13, 2017, at 7:34 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> On 2017-04-13 6:54 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
>> ...
>> ...or that Iverson language, APL, present on the 5100 and what was
>> probably one of the the first microcomputers, the MCM/70.
>>
>> So,
On Thu, Apr 13, 2017, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. via cctalk wrote:
> Toby Thain via cctalk wrote on Thu, 13 Apr 2017 19:34:08 -0400
> > On 2017-04-13 6:54 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> > > So, whence APL today?
> >
> > Still lives on -- Dyalog, J, K, etc. Recently discovered the #jsoftware
> >
Toby Thain via cctalk wrote on Thu, 13 Apr 2017 19:34:08 -0400
> On 2017-04-13 6:54 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> > So, whence APL today?
>
> Still lives on -- Dyalog, J, K, etc. Recently discovered the #jsoftware
> channel on Freenode for APL fans.
I consider Matlab and Julia to be
On 2017-04-13 6:54 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 04/13/2017 02:19 PM, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote:
While one might argue the proliferation of BASIC on micros followed
from BG/PA & SW/SJ, I'd say their implementations were following a
trend rather than initiating it. BASIC was gaining