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Everyone should read "Notation as a Tool of Thought" by Iverson: http://www.jdl.ac.cn/turing/pdf/p444-iverson.pdf http://www.jdl.ac.cn/turing/pdf/p444-iverson.
by jasonwatkinspdx 14y ago
Everyone should read "Notation as a Tool of Thought" by Iverson:
http://www.jdl.ac.cn/turing/pdf/p444-iverson.pdf http://www.jdl.ac.cn/turing/pdf/p444-iverson.pdf
APL was originally designed as a uniform mathematical notation. It was only implemented as a programming language some time later. I don't think classic APL has a future, but there are ideas there worth learning.
- agumonkey 14y agoStrongly reminiscent of Lisp. Wishful ideas brought to reality.
- jasonwatkinspdx 14y agoI think we need more of this. Crazy niche languages that are unafraid and unashamed of to be ambitious and novel in paradigm. We have plenty of choices for minor syntax tweaks or extensions of OO and ML. We need to get brave again.
- protomyth 14y agoanother link if the original doesn't work for you: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.94.4685 http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.94.4...