“ 13 layers of managers.” The explanation of their survival is, I believe, their huge profit margins. I still recall when they got a contract to electronically handle the Toronto Stock Exchange trading system where they charged $18 per transaction. Their cost of course was just a few electrons per transaction. They were in effect a monopoly at the time. And monopolies always waste huge quantities of resources, accordingly reducing everone’s living standards. Rodney.
> On Apr 12, 2021, at 10:15 AM, Björn Helgason <gos...@gmail.com> wrote: > > apl lives on even if ibm goes away. > > it is really amazing that ibm is still around. > > 13 layers of managers. > > Þann mán., 12. apr. 2021, 13:51 Raul Miller skrifaði <rauldmil...@gmail.com >> : > >> That's disappointing. >> >> Not surprising -- just disappointing. >> >> Still, there's J, there's Dyalog APL, there's GNU APL, and there's k and q. >> >> Not to mention various hardware array concepts, such as greenarrays and >> gpus. >> >> And, maybe, IBM will go back up at some point? >> >> Who knows... >> >> -- >> Raul >> >>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 5:05 AM Björn Helgason <gos...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apl2-whats-new >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
