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APL looks like an interesting language. I am not very good at math, but the APL keyboard looks exciting, rather than frightening. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
by terminalcommand 13y ago
APL looks like an interesting language. I am not very good at math, but the APL keyboard looks exciting, rather than frightening.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:APL-keybd2.svg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:APL-keybd2.svg
- Posibyte 13y agoAPL was one of those languages they shown us in college to be "A terrible thing, so be grateful for new languages like C." Looking at APL here, it actually looks really interesting.
- beagle3 13y ago> "A terrible thing, so be grateful for new languages like C." While a common sentiment, it has about as much merit as saying: "look at those japanese characters. You can't read them, therefore japanese is a terrible thing".
- erbo 13y agoI want to echo the comments of Wiz Zumwalt in The Wizardry Consulted: "Sure, if you've got a computer that can render hieroglyphics, and if you never need to remember what you did." On the other hand, Wiz later used a line of APL to stump a dragon in the riddle game. So there's that. (Wiz's coworker Jerry was exploring the use of APL as a language for their magic spell compiler, originally written in a Forth-like language.)