APL Vade Mecum was an APL reference card the size of a credit card. Nowadays you can have an APL computer of that size.
----- Original Message ----- From: Nollaig MacKenzie <[email protected]> Date: Friday, June 26, 2009 15:20 Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] more ancient history To: Programming forum <[email protected]> > > On 2009.06.26 14:17:36, you, > the extraordinary Eugene McDonnell, emitted: > > > > What is an "APL Vade Mecum" > > 'vadere', I think, means 'go'; so 'APL vade mecum' would > be an APL go-with-me, so a portable APL something? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
