On Sun, 22 Aug 2021 16:28:12 -0300, Hope Rouselle <hrouse...@jevedi.com> declaimed the following:
>That's wild. :-) Was this created by Brian Kernighan? It's hard to >believe. Oh, I think he wrote AMPL, wasn't it? A Mathematical >Programming Language, or something like that. Kenneth Iverson, early 1960s for release, though he started in the late 50s (so a decade before Kernighan). I believe it started life as a notation for publishing reports, not as an actual implemented language. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)#Development_into_a_computer_programming_language> {Hmmm, supposed to have influenced Matlab, S, and Wolfram/Mathematica} One of the quirks is that one reads APL from right to left... cf: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)#Pick_6_lottery_numbers> You do not want to look down at the one-liner for Conway's Game of Life. -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfr...@ix.netcom.com http://wlfraed.microdiversity.freeddns.org/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list