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For me, COBOL is so over-presented in the media among the old (mainframe) lagnuages, but I recently was surprised to see a production mainframe LPAR offering an
by pgtan 7y ago
For me, COBOL is so over-presented in the media among the old (mainframe) lagnuages, but I recently was surprised to see a production mainframe LPAR offering an APL2 interface,and it seems the language is still maintained on zOS[1]. But I never heard of business application written in APL.
1 https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apl2-whats-new https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apl2-whats-new
- nickpeterson 7y agoAPL was strongly supported by IBM early on, and was used for verification of early IBM systems. When you look at APL in context, it was extremely ahead of its time.
- Pamar 7y agoDo a string search for "APL" in this webpage then: https://www.simcorp.com/en/career/product-development https://www.simcorp.com/en/career/product-development (A friend of mine worked for www.apl.it which was later bought by simcorp.com - the original company worked on actuarial models for insurances and funds).
- scottlocklin 7y agoI went to Burning Man with Allen Rose's cousin (of "Gilman and Rose" fame), and got to hear two fisted tales of him writing CRM applications in an afternoon that were still in production 20, 30 years later. It's a shame, really; it really is the most productive language I've ever used.
- dang 7y agoAPL is alive and somewhat well on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=apl%20point https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...