In the 70's three companies based their businesses on APL-based time sharing services: Scientific Computing (Wash. DC), SECOS (Poughkeepsie) and another in Toronto and it was popular in universities. For a time before networking as we know it today existed, that was pretty impressive.
Harold Grovesteen
Gregg C Levine wrote:
Hello (again) from Gregg C Levine I know, I could feel the stirring all the way here.............<BG>
Seriously though, what's wrong with APL? It's got a good history behind it, a good track record behind it. Granted it has a less then stellar acceptance record, and its syntax is strange, and the only use that I can remember was in the construction of the S/360, and S/370 families. ------------------- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------ "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi "Use the Force, Luke." Obi-Wan Kenobi
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So I end up coding in whatever language I can get the task done most quickly and easily. Sometimes it's Rexx, sometimes it's assembler, sometimes it's fortran, sometimes it's C, sometimes it's shell script. Makes for Job Security, because often I'll have one module call another and they're not written in the same language and no one but me can follow it.
The Force is strong in this one....8-).
Shades of VMS. I always liked the fact that VMS Engineering
deliberately
coded at least one important system utility in each DEC-supported language in order to require the marketing nitwits to ship all the run-time libraries for all the supported language compilers pre-installed at no charge to the customer.
Hmm. There may be a moral here.
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