APL\360

Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
Fri Jan 15 18:16:38 CST 2021


At least Edsger Dijkstra thought that APL had been "carried through to 
perfection"!   "language of the future" for our programming techniques!
creates a new generation of coders"!


Oh, wait.  Here's the context:
"APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of 
the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new 
generation of coding bums."   - Edsger Dijksta

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/ewd498.html




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