12 Sep
2007
12 Sep
'07
7:28 a.m.
[Fred Cisin, quoting r.stricklin]
But it'd be a *really* long line!
[Chuck Guzis, replying to the same r.stricklin quote]
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. It appears that there are no lukewarm opinions about
APL. Either you
*really* like it and evangelize constantly about it (sort of like
Forth) or you ignore it and sometimes refer to it as "that Iverson
thing"...
Heh. I seem to be an exception. I like APL in many respects, and I'm
glad I know it...and I almost never do anything for which it would be a
right choice of language; I don't do much matrix juggling. Same for
FORTH, actually, except that the "almost never" is less true.
Yet I evangelize for neither. I wonder what's wrong with me. :)
[In passing, to Chuck Guzis, whatever generated your References: header
is a bit broken - it stuck commas in, and there should be no such
punctuation, just the <message-IDs>.]
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