12 Sep
2007
12 Sep
'07
10:40 a.m.
On 12/09/2007, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 11 Sep 2007 at 21:34, r.stricklin wrote:
Friend of mine was - is, probably - a Perl wizard.
As soon as he got his doctorate in Physics - Computational Fluid
Dynamics - he quit academia and went to work for a major US investment
bank.
Which runs a lot of its internal systems based on a language called
A+, their own flavour of APL.
He tells me he now finds Perl irritatingly verbose.
I find this very frightening.
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Funny you should mention that, Martin Ziskind
recently pitched me a
total salesjob on the merits of APL. It was quite surreal.
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"...