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More like Excel killed APL. APL was mainly used by "domain experts", i.e., people who were not software engineers. According to Dyalog's YouTube videos, APL is
by Jhsto 6y ago
More like Excel killed APL. APL was mainly used by "domain experts", i.e., people who were not software engineers. According to Dyalog's YouTube videos, APL is still there for these people who started doing spreadsheets way before anything like Excel was available.
- moonchild 6y agoAnd now they've come full circle - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEG9pFNYBCI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEG9pFNYBCI
- smabie 6y agoAPL might not be super popular, but array languages are widely used in data heavy industries.
- kick 6y agoThis isn't true and was never true; currently don't have time to point out why it's not true but I will get to it as soon as possible.
- beagle3 6y agoAccounting and planning people, who use Excel today, were never APL users. APL was popular in the operations research community, and those people are now mostly R users (but they left APL to SAS, Stata, S/S+ and a few others through the years, before adopting R)