Thanks for your feedback. A few comments:
> I do not consider these two things conceptually equivalent. In Python the
>identifier ('a' in this case) is just label to the value
I used APL professionally for about ten years. None of your objections ring
true. A simple example is had from mathem
future. AI and ML, if anything, will allow us to define the problems we
want to solve in something much closer to natural language and let the
computers figure out how that translates to code. What kind of code? Python?
C++? APL? x86? RISC-V? Who cares?!
That's all I have time
n with many people in the 30+ years since I
learned APL and 20+ years since I stopped using it professionally.
Oh, really? You programmed APL for 10 years?! Did you go to Yale Mr.
Kavanaugh? You can cut the arguments from Authority. They're worth nothing.
Look, we don't have to a
something he probably should not have said.
I now see this is an intellectually welcoming community, which completely
explains the walrus operator and other issues.
Thanks anyway,
-Martin
On Wednesday, November 6, 2019, 02:22:00 PM PST, Andrew Barnert
wrote:
On Nov 6, 2019, at 18:05
e gone differently if the Mayans had a say.
It has been my experience that people who have not had the experience rarely
get it
A pattern I've seen in my experience is that some person or group will put
forth a pretty good idea, and others become dogmatic about that idea, loose
sight of pra
> Was your use of APL on a machine with a dedicated APL keyboard?
I've done both. In the early '80's it was not uncommon to find terminals with
APL keyboards. IBM, DEC, Tektronix and other made them. Once the IBM PC era
took hold most of APL was done with either a card you'd place in front of
> This has nothing to do with representation or input via text
It does, it's an extension of the reality that, after so many decades, we are
still typing words on a text editor. In other words, my comment isn't so much
about the mechanics and editors that are available as much as the fact that
> These thousands of words of repeating claims with weird non sequitur
> digressions seem to amount to
I am done with this thread. It has received nothing but close-minded
hostility. Which is fine. I understand. That's the way the world works.
I've seen this kind of thing happen in many
