On 5/1/2024 8:04 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 5/1/24 16:51, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
APL was incredible. I was amazed. I was immediately able to do a few
simple things that were useful for my boss and myself, and writing
simple programs within hours. Its matrix arithmetic was awesome. APL
typeball on a selectric terminal at GSFC, . . .
Some of the keys were re-labeled, but there was a chart on the wall of
which keyboard characters were which APL symbols.
It was indeed. It was also one of the first languages implemented on a
microprocessor-based personal computer system. (MCM-70).
To me, APL is logical--strict right-to-left precedence; simple array and
matrix operations.
I've long wondered if we introduced students to APL as a first language,
what our applications code would look like today.
Marist College did. We had an intern from there when I was at
West Point. He was not better than any of the interns I later
ran into and because the only language he was learning at Marist
was APL (after all, this was IBM-Land) he was really not of much
use to us in a Univac-1100 shop.
bill
