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Historically it was spreadsheets that killed (financier) interest in APL (which was going gangbusters at the time). They were much easier for this crowd. APL do
by emanuensis 8y ago
Historically it was spreadsheets that killed (financier) interest in APL (which was going gangbusters at the time). They were much easier for this crowd. APL does actually work for non numerical stuff. There is the famous example of OS360 being written in a couple pages of APL code. The model was actually used at IBM and at the time was heavily used there. Iverson went on to shepherd J, a much sophisticated language. K, another much modern offshoot, in the mean time has taken over the financial (trader) world.