I might believe special golf ball. While I never used APL, and din't find the lack of control structures desirable, I very much liked the concept of operators and reduction.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Carmen Vitullo [cvitu...@hughes.net] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2022 1:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: FORMAC was ABP Reminds of of the IBM 'guy' we had on-site daily at my fist gig, he had a 'special' terminal at our site and coded in a language that eludes me right now - man do I feel old now that I cannot remember stuff Carmen On 3/24/2022 12:05 PM, Pierre Fichaud wrote: > I haven't heard the term ABP mentioned in over 20 years. > That brings back memories of stuff I did early in my career. > > I remember using IBM's FORMAC compiler (or pre-processor) sometime in the mid > 70s (I think). > IIRC, it generated PL/1 code. > I can't remember what I did but I didn't spend a lot of time on it. > > Pierre. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email tolists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > -- /I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong. *Abraham Lincoln*/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
