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Gary Kildall of CP/M fame, used the B5500 and was heavily influenced by it. His graduate thesis involved an implementation of APL on the B5500, using words ins
by shrubble 5y ago
Gary Kildall of CP/M fame, used the B5500 and was heavily influenced by it.
His graduate thesis involved an implementation of APL on the B5500, using words instead of the special characters that APL usually used, such as 'RHO' instead of the Greek symbol.
- rbanffy 5y agoHaving experiences like this is something incredibly valuable for an engineer. This is why, when people ask me what language should they learn, I suggest they learn something completely different from what they know. If you know Python, don’t learn Java. Learn Lisp instead. Or APL (or “learn to make good comments the hard way”). Or FORTH.