> -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Nemo Nusquam > via cctalk > Sent: 15 January 2021 21:51 > To: Toby Thain <t...@telegraphics.com.au>; General Discussion: On-Topic > and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Subject: Re: APL\360 > > On 01/15/21 14:25, Toby Thain wrote: > > On 2021-01-15 1:33 p.m., Nemo Nusquam via cctalk wrote: > >> As a grad student, I still remember the row of APL terminals at the > >> computer centre with their APL-specific keyboards, always ruing that > >> I had no time to learn it. > > Seems backwards when students have no time to learn things. Just sayin
> I was in math, not computer science. APL would have been a curiousity and > nothing else. I was in Mathematics (sorry I am English) and I wrote code in APL to do Critical Path Analysis with Heuristic Resource Levelling in APL. Sadly I no longer have the code. I believe APL was widely used by actuaries to calculate life assurance premiums because of its ability to do array manipulations, > > N. Dave
