* [TUHS] RIP Ken Iverson
@ 2015-10-23 10:59 Doug McIlroy
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From: Doug McIlroy @ 2015-10-23 10:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
Dan,
I wrote:
Quiz for the occasion: which major Unix utility adopted IPL's
unprecedented expression syntax?
You correctly responded:
troff.
I suppose, in a sense, that 'dc' also fits the bill but given that that is
inherent in it's stack based nature, I doubt that is what you meant.
The notion of precedence pertains specifically to infix notation, so
postfix dc is definitely not in the running.
Idle thought about my typo: Though APL is famously inscrutable, IPL
(specifically IPL-V) outshined it in that department.
Doug
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* [TUHS] RIP Ken Iverson
2015-10-22 13:32 ` Dan Cross
@ 2015-10-22 13:34 ` Dan Cross
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From: Dan Cross @ 2015-10-22 13:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
(Also, the 7th edition assembler, which was [is?] implicitly a major
utility, if seldom invoked by itself.)
On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Dan Cross <crossd at gmail.com> wrote:
> troff.
>
> I suppose, in a sense, that 'dc' also fits the bill but given that that is
> inherent in it's stack based nature, I doubt that is what you meant.
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:20 AM, Doug McIlroy <doug at cs.dartmouth.edu>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Quiz for the occasion: which major Unix utility adopted IPL's
>> unprecedented expression syntax?
>>
>> doug
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* [TUHS] RIP Ken Iverson
2015-10-22 12:20 Doug McIlroy
@ 2015-10-22 13:32 ` Dan Cross
2015-10-22 13:34 ` Dan Cross
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From: Dan Cross @ 2015-10-22 13:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
troff.
I suppose, in a sense, that 'dc' also fits the bill but given that that is
inherent in it's stack based nature, I doubt that is what you meant.
On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:20 AM, Doug McIlroy <doug at cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
>
> Quiz for the occasion: which major Unix utility adopted IPL's
> unprecedented expression syntax?
>
> doug
> _______________________________________________
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* [TUHS] RIP Ken Iverson
@ 2015-10-22 12:20 Doug McIlroy
2015-10-22 13:32 ` Dan Cross
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From: Doug McIlroy @ 2015-10-22 12:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
Quiz for the occasion: which major Unix utility adopted IPL's
unprecedented expression syntax?
doug
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* [TUHS] RIP Ken Iverson
2015-10-21 5:27 Dave Horsfall
@ 2015-10-21 15:41 ` Gilbert Morgan
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From: Gilbert Morgan @ 2015-10-21 15:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
RIP. I also meant to acknowledge D. Ritchie some days back as well.
<quote who="Dave Horsfall">
> Loved or loathed for inventing APL, we lost him in 2004. The best thing
> you can say about APL (I used APL\360) is that it's, err, concise...
>
> --
> Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
> suffer."
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* [TUHS] RIP Ken Iverson
@ 2015-10-21 5:27 Dave Horsfall
2015-10-21 15:41 ` Gilbert Morgan
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From: Dave Horsfall @ 2015-10-21 5:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
Loved or loathed for inventing APL, we lost him in 2004. The best thing
you can say about APL (I used APL\360) is that it's, err, concise...
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
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