On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 5:38 AM, Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *A Programming Language (APL) *has an interesting provenance: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language) > Here is a simple function from the article that is part of an implementation of the common "life" program with the mutating lifeforms: life←{↑1 ⍵∨.∧3 4=+/,¯1 0 1∘.⊖¯1 0 1∘.⌽⊂⍵} This strikes me more as a mathematical notation than a statement in a modern programming language. Mathematica statements are much easier to read. I think there was a special keyboard that allowed you to input each of these characters. Eric
