On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 at 17:21, Nemo Nusquam via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > In 1999, a fellow student in a UML course worked for a large information > company (Reuters, I think?) and told me that they had embarked on an > expensive s/w conversion project. Their back-end systems were > implemented in APL and they could not find programmers -- even ones > willing to learn APL for pay.
Later than that, Morgan Stanley was still using significant amounts of APL, albeit in its own in-house dialect, A+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%2B_(programming_language) My lodger at one point (around 2005 I think) got a job with MS and had to learn A+. He was a heavy Perl user before and maintained some official Perl packages. He was given to improvising tiny cryptic Perl one-liners on Linux to work stuff out, calculate dates, do file management, etc. IOW he thought in Perl. He commented to me in the pub a year or 2 later that he realised one evening, doing some Perl work, that after some years working in A+, he now found Perl irritatingly verbose, and that realisation rather shocked him. :-) Of course this is some 15Y ago now and it may no longer be in use, but it certainly was well past the turn of the century. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053