27 Feb
2015
27 Feb
'15
4:48 p.m.
On 02/27/2015 01:23 PM, Roe Peterson wrote:
APL was very interesting, but every implementation I
ever used was
interpreted, not compiled. It made for some pretty slow running
code, even though development was very fast for some things.
Again, it depends on the implementation. I never noticed that APL was
particularly slow on a STAR-100, but then, that architecture suited the
language.
APL certainly encouraged thinking about things in a different way. I
wonder what today would look like if APL was used as a "first language"
to teach programming.
--Chuck