Rich kids are into COBOL

[Chuck Guzis]

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