John McKown's jest contains an important truth [too]. I do not find APL at all difficult to read or to write, less difficult because less turgid and verbose than COBOL. My position, moreover, is not an extreme one. There is an APL community that finds almost all other languages wanting because they are not APL-like; and there is asnother, non-overlapping one that sees the world through LISP-colored glasses.
We are all creatures of our experience. Worse, that experience is very different for each of us, and consensus on what is best will always be elusive. Fortunately, we can often agree on what, of its kind, is bad. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
