Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> writes: > 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.
I really do not. But I did. That's really wild. Dramatic. Speechless. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
