APL and descendants - was Re: If C is so evil why is it so successful?
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COURYHOUSE at aol.com
Fri Apr 14 20:53:40 CDT 2017
At SMECC we have a very curious laptop with a little tape drive in it
that seems to take small dictation size tapes. The little laptop has a
rounded top to it. Mfr name on tip of tongue ... but ...
It live in one of the Glass chasses .. wonder how scarce they are?
only seen the one...
Ed#
In a message dated 4/14/2017 8:09:32 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
cctalk at classiccmp.org writes:
> On Apr 13, 2017, at 7:34 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> On 2017-04-13 6:54 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
>> ...
>> ...or that Iverson language, APL, present on the 5100 and what was
>> probably one of the the first microcomputers, the MCM/70.
>>
>> So, whence APL today?
>
> Still lives on -- Dyalog, J, K, etc. Recently discovered the #jsoftware
channel on Freenode for APL fans.
For that matter, APL itself also still exists, the OpenAPL open source
implementation for example. Works nicely.
paul
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