[cctalk] Re: APL (Was: BASIC

On 5/2/24 07:02, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > My guess is that the languages you use routinely are the ones that work best, and which languages those are depends on where you work and on what projects. For example, I don't *like* C (I call it a "feebly typed language") and C++ not either, but my job uses these two plus Python. > Now Python is actually my favorite (though recently I've done a bunch of work in FORTH). I like to mention that, in 50 years or so, I have only encountered two programming languages where I went from "no knowledge" to "wrote and debugged a substantial program" in only one week -- Pascal (in graduate school) and Python (one job ago). Reminds me of the brief trend for so-called "Natural Language" programming in the 70s. NLP for short. "Take the 6rh item on the list and print it" sort of stuff. Apparently, it has resurfaced in the AI community. Problem is that people don't think like computers, even AI-equipped ones. --Chuck