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I worked translating APL into C. APL died for the same reasons Perl died. Nobody wants to read your code. APL had the niche back in the 70s that it was a ver
by narrator 5y ago
I worked translating APL into C. APL died for the same reasons Perl died. Nobody wants to read your code. APL had the niche back in the 70s that it was a very productive language for 110 baud teletypes where you could watch the characters coming back from the timesharing system print out line by line as you waited. In that age, conciseness was a killer feature.
- rscho 5y agoAPL died? A large part of banking and heavy industry runs on APL, so I don't think so...
- donkarma 5y agoIt's dead, just still decaying
- rscho 5y agoNo.
- omnicognate 5y agoCan't speak for "heavy industry" but a small part of banking uses kdb+, mostly in spite of the crazy APL-derived language it insists on using.