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What did APL and co get wrong, except for becoming popular (otherwise it is just an argument from popularity). The ultra terse syntax, will have lead to an ext

• dkhenry 11y ago
  APL and co got becoming popular wrong. As great as a singular developer might be they will never make the comunalative progress that a much larger number of acceptable developers will make. The software ecosystem evoloved so rapidly around APL that it didn't have time to really show off anything it was good at. All the problems that it solved were solved 100 times over by others, and they gained the market share to drive the state of the art forward. Sure Kdb might be great, but there is a reason why Oracle makes a few more orders of magnitude more money then they do, even the claim that they can replicate Hadoop and other "Big Data" solutions is nonense as even a modest Hadoop consulting firm does more buisness then the 10m that Kx brings in. The failure is one I have seen a lot. It doesn't matter what you do, if you are living on an island as a professional of any kind your contributions will be shortly forgotten and replaced by those who had the ability to share their ideas with the larger population.