13 Apr
2017
13 Apr
'17
8:22 p.m.
On Thu, Apr 13, 2017, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. via cctalk wrote:
Toby Thain via cctalk wrote on Thu, 13 Apr 2017
19:34:08 -0400
The VideoBrain home computer had something called APL/S, but I can't
find any information on how it differs from APL. Does anyone know?
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Eric Christopherson
On 2017-04-13 6:54 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
I consider Matlab and Julia to be spiritual descendents of APL.
One thing that hurt APL in early microcomputers was that they used text
mode with the wrong font. I would also have guessed that Basic could
work better in really limited hardware, but some early APL
implementations were impressively frugal. So, whence APL today?
Still lives on -- Dyalog, J, K, etc. Recently discovered the #jsoftware
channel on Freenode for APL fans.