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I typed this in using an IBM terminal with an APL ball during my first year of Comp Sci at Penn State Delaware Valley campus in 1976. I also typed in Trek-76.
by SpikeDad 6y ago
I typed this in using an IBM terminal with an APL ball during my first year of Comp Sci at Penn State Delaware Valley campus in 1976. I also typed in Trek-76.
There's nothing slower than tying in APL code using a hard copy terminal. At least we had an APL keyboard on the terminal - I think it was a dedicated terminal. Sorry I don't recall the model.
I never did get to think in APL - if you've never used it there are lots of specialized characters, some that do a ton of operations with one character (arrays for example).
Anyways it's in the wayback days of PL/1, Snobol, Cobol, BASIC and Turbo Pascal.