11 Sep
2007
11 Sep
'07
9:51 p.m.
> . . . and Egyption hieroglyphics look like a
subset of APL.
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, r.stricklin wrote:
Funny you should mention that, Martin Ziskind recently
pitched me a
total salesjob on the merits of APL. It was quite surreal.
It's nice and terse. A word processor could probably be written in one
line of code.
'course nobody but the original author of code can read it, and even the
original author only has about a 1 day window of still being able to
follow it.
I couldn't get the original IBM PC APL to run on newer machines.