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> So what's the trick to using APL if you don't have the keyboard? Snarky answer is to use J. I have this hope that on-screen tablet keyboards will bring APL
by sedachv 10y ago
> So what's the trick to using APL if you don't have the keyboard?
Snarky answer is to use J.
I have this hope that on-screen tablet keyboards will bring APL back. It's one of the few languages where you can actually be productive developing on a tablet or phablet because it requires so little typing. As well the idea of workspaces is something that would work well on modern phone OSes. Basically the same things that made APL a great choice for early personal computers (MCM/70 and IBM 5100 were both APL machines: http://www.xnumber.com/xnumber/MCM_70_microcomputer.htm http://www.xnumber.com/xnumber/MCM_70_microcomputer.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5100 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5100) would make it work on phones.
- gaius 10y agoOr q or k :-)