APL is a language developed by Dr. Kenneth Iverson of IBM in the
early 1960's. It was designed for teaching formal mathematics,
primarily matrix algebra. It is written right-to-left, not
left-to-right, and uses Greek symbols [Z-code, not ASCII or EBCDIC]
quite extensively for its mathematical operators. Most people find
it impenetrable, and one must use it fairly frequently to remain
fluent.
David, APL is possibly the wost language ever developed for the
computer.
BTW: APL means A Programming Language
One must also have an APL keyboard. Or a PC keyboard reconfigured for
APL.
Impenetrable? APL is the only language I've ever seen where the
person that wrote the line of code could not explain what it did one
day later.
From: "David T. Johnson" <djohnson@isomedia.com>of their new version of the APL2 interactive programming language > for OS/2:
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: IBM Releases Demo of APL2 for OS/2
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 00:27:05 -0400
Message-ID: <3B15C819.182B38C0@isomedia.com>
Looks like IBM posted a fully-functional (240 minute timer) demo last > week
ftp://service.software.ibm.com/ps/products/apl2/demos/apl2demo
APL is a language developed by Dr. Kenneth Iverson of IBM in the
early 1960's. It was designed for teaching formal mathematics,
primarily matrix algebra. It is written right-to-left, not
left-to-right, and uses Greek symbols [Z-code, not ASCII or
EBCDIC] quite extensively for its mathematical operators. Most
people find it impenetrable, and one must use it fairly
frequently to remain fluent.
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