15 Jan
2021
15 Jan
'21
3:11 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Nemo Nusquam
via cctalk
Sent: 15 January 2021 21:51
To: Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au>; General Discussion: On-Topic
and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: APL\360
On 01/15/21 14:25, Toby Thain wrote:
> On 2021-01-15 1:33 p.m., Nemo Nusquam via cctalk wrote:
>> As a grad student, I still remember the row of APL terminals at the
>> computer centre with their APL-specific keyboards, always ruing that
>> I had no time to learn it.
> Seems backwards when students have no time to learn things. Just sayin
I was in math, not computer science. APL would have
been a curiousity and
nothing else.
I was in Mathematics (sorry I am English) and I wrote code in APL to do Critical Path
Analysis with Heuristic Resource Levelling in APL. Sadly I no longer have the code.
I believe APL was widely used by actuaries to calculate life assurance premiums because of
its ability to do array manipulations,
N.
Dave