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At first read the idea you propose is very attractive but I think you do need to address why APL didn't take off. Perhaps they chose a poor vocabulary, are ther
by abdulhaq 10y ago
At first read the idea you propose is very attractive but I think you do need to address why APL didn't take off. Perhaps they chose a poor vocabulary, are there better ways to represent algorithms?
- dang 10y agoI'm sorry I didn't reply to this during the conversation, but am traveling this week. IMO the short answer is that questions like "why didn't APL take off" presuppose an orderliness to history that doesn't really exist. Plenty of historical factors (e.g. market dynamics) can intervene to prevent an idea from taking off. Presumably if an idea is really superior it will be rediscovered many times in multiple forms, and one of them will eventually spark.