I miss APL. It was one of the first languages I learned. Bruce, you couldn't get your editor code into one line?
For the young 'uns - there were always efforts to see how few lines an APL program would be. I knew of someone who wrote an entire data base system in a program that was about a half-page. It was a delimited data base, similar to PICK. Open source APL anyone? :-) Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus-stops-here.org/ German is essentially a form of assembly language consisting entirely of far calls heavily accented with throaty guttural sounds. --ilvi > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craddock, Chris > Sent: Wednesday 07 September 2005 10:44 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: address space > > > <warning: another old timer talking history; uninterested youngsters > can > > skip this message> > > > > Gosh, the APL ball. That brings back memories. > > Yep. I loved APL. I saw, but never used the selectric with > the APL ball. > I only ever used 3277 and later terminals with the APL > character set built in - at considerable extra cost IIRC. > > I wrote tens of thousands of lines of APL code in one of my > former lives. Then I wrote almost as many again lines of > assembler code for auxiliary processors and external > functions so I could use APL as a sysprog sandbox and > toolkit. It was pretty slick back in the day. Are we a bunch > of old wierdos or what? > > CC > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access > instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the > message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at > http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
