[cctalk] Re: "It's dead, Jim" Was: Re: Intel 3086

On Tue, 2026-06-16 at 21:11 -0500, Mike Katz via cctalk wrote: I was told, by whom I do not remember, that the IBM 360 was designed in APL, starting in 1962. There's a paper about it, "A Formal Description of System/360," which was entirely written using APL notation. The first APL compiler that IBM used was written by Larry Breed and Philip Abrams in Fortran IV and ran on the IBM 7090 under IBSYS.