I miss APL. It was one of the first languages I learned.
Bruce, you couldn't get your editor code into one line?
For the young 'uns - there were always efforts to see how few lines an APL
program would be. I knew of someone who wrote an entire data base system in
a program that was about a
APL . . . hurts . . . head . . .
Great acronym, though. IIRC, stood for A Programming Language.
Jon
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In a message dated 9/7/2005 1:10:38 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
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there were always efforts to see how few lines an APL
program would be. I knew of someone who wrote an entire data base system in
a program that was about a half-page.
A sophomoric, yet fertile,
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I miss APL. It was one of the first languages I learned.
Bruce
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 11:09:57 -0700, Ray Mullins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For the young 'uns - there were always efforts to see how few lines an APL
program would be. I knew of someone who wrote an entire data base system
in
a program that was about a half-page. It was a delimited data base,
Bruce, you couldn't get your editor code into one line?
Hey, I never said how many lines it was, just that it was half a page
(printed). Honestly I don't recall, but it wasn't a lot of lines. For
the uninitiated, APL was a very compact language, using a lot of special
characters for
Great acronym, though. IIRC, stood for A Programming Language.
...
Correct.
If my ex hadn't left me I would still have a (signed) copy of a first edition
of Iverson's book.
IIRC, it was entitled:
A Programming Language.
-teD
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