APL\360

Thanks for the link. Coincidentally, recently while going through my ancient Calgary printouts, found a few small APL programs I wrote in 1968 or 1969. There was an APL system being trialed at UofCalgary and a group of us had a chance to play around with it for a few hours. It was very novel back then to have immediate results of a program instead of 24-48 hour turnaround for a batch FORTRAN job. It was an easy language to learn but recall just writing a few simple one or two line programs and essentially using it as a sophisticated calculator to get immediate results for a physics problem. Glad to see that APL manuals now online and can now decode what I was trying to do on those printouts with APL hieroglyphics. Reminds me a bit of FOCAL on PDP-8 which was used to quickly create throwaway programs that were just needed for a calculation that was too tedious to do by hand or with a slide rule but too simple to go through bother of writing a FORTRAN program.