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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:14:30 -0400
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> there has also been a lot of discussion in the past 1-2 months about
> K, a successor to APL, in #plan9. you might ask there; i may have
> missed a more recent development.

could someone please explain to the ignorant, what
is interesting about apl?  the last surge of interest i
recall in the language was in 1983.  ibm offered an
rom for the mga (monochrome graphics adapter)
that substituted the odd apl characters for the
equally-odd pc character set's bucky-bit characters.

- erik