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>there is nothing on the landscape that is really equivalent to APL I beg to differ: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(programming_language) http://en.wikipedia.
by wging 14y ago
>there is nothing on the landscape that is really equivalent to APL
I beg to differ: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(programming_language) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(programming_language)
- btilly 14y agoNice one. But it is not widely enough known that just naming it would have clarified Dijkstra's comment about APL.
- draegtun 14y agoJust watched a video about Array programming which mentions APL and J. It also mentioned a couple of interesting facts about Ken Iverson I'd not heard elsewhere: 1 - Iverson originally wanted to call his new language Iverson's Better Math but his company blocked this so he went for A Programming Language (APL) instead. NB. Iverson worked for IBM at the time :) 2 - Iverson passed away at a computer screen. Video was very interesting so posted link on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4931929 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4931929