One could say:
thise.Day(Pine)
print.out("arg YANFL");
but the joke might not compile.
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Parks, Raymond <rcpa...@sandia.gov> wrote:
> In my case, I was asked to help the Comptrollers (Air Force speak for
> accountants) to optimize the code because they were using an IBM emulator
> on a Honeywell 6800 and their APL programs were bogging down the entire
> system. Oh, what tangled web we create, when first we try to emulate -
> or, perhaps, there was another fine mess they got me into.
>
> Ray Parks
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> On Jul 13, 2015, at 4:33 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
>
> I programmed in APL while at Xerox in the 70's. Although "dangerous" it
> was really fast to program in, especially as a domain specific language, so
> to speak. It got so that if you couldn't do a one-liner for anything you
> wanted to do, you'd be disappointed!
>
> Interestingly enough, it was the Finance dept of Xerox that first started
> using it, and then it leaked into the labs where it went viral.
>
> SmallTalk was sorta the same, really great but hard to deploy initially,
> but really loved in the labs.
>
> -- Owen
>
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Parks, Raymond <rcpa...@sandia.gov>
> wrote:
>
>> It's analagous to pets - you raise them (sometimes) from bottle-feeding
>> and they live to old age - and they die long before you are ready. Sure,
>> there are the occasional turtles and parrots that outlive their owners -
>> COBOL has long outlived Grace Hopper - but most computer languages come and
>> go within their authors and certainly users professional lifetimes.
>> Sometimes you babysit somebody else's pet while they're on vacation or
>> something - the other thread on the cube comic points this out - only a few
>> of us have ever worked with SNOBOL (and we probably didn't like it that
>> much). I started with Algol, moved on to COBOL, assembled various
>> flavours, did some Fortran (various flavours), then CMS II (a regression),
>> C, C++, Java (swore at Grady), and then a succession of scripting languages
>> (none of which have stuck). My strangest language experience was A
>> Programming Language (APL) - oh the damage one can do in almost no code.
>>
>> Ray Parks
>> Consilient Heuristician/IDART Old-Timer
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>> On Jul 11, 2015, at 8:41 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
>>
>> This is sorta sad:
>>
>> https://github.com/NetLogo/NetLogo/wiki/Applets
>> Applets: They're dead Jim.
>>
>> Sad mainly from a history standpoint: Java built a really fascinating
>> cross platform, VM based, language & libraries.
>>
>> JS is now the current winner. But then, there's Web Assembly which will
>> provide a path for all languages to replace JS in the browser and in
>> Node.js.
>>
>> Sigh.
>>
>> -- Owen
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