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Good to know. I'm definitely not denying that this is IBM washing its hands of APL officially, just pointing out that unofficially it's been this way for a deca
by mlochbaum 5y ago
Good to know. I'm definitely not denying that this is IBM washing its hands of APL officially, just pointing out that unofficially it's been this way for a decade or two at least. Despite hosting the creation of APL, IBM has a distinguished history of neglecting it. In the early years there was some pressure to use PL/I instead of APL. For timesharing (when it was profitable, before microcomputers), APL*PLUS and SHARP APL took over a lot of market share from IBM by being faster to implement features customers wanted. APL2 was a reversal of this trend, but it didn't last long.