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From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
To: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Fwd: [multicians] History of C (with Multics reference)
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 22:49:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD2gp_SnhZ4VTAvkVRpTxOXmkOgvcaRK1YXXh0gM0a5qt5h56Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3803.1613457083@hop.toad.com>

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On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 1:32 AM John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com> wrote:


> There was clearly a lot of cross-fertilization between early APL systems
> and Bon.  (APL was the first computer language I dug deeply into.)  Some
> of the common elements are the interactive execution environment,
> untyped variables, and automatic application of builtin functions (like
> +) across all elements of arrays.
>

In particular, doing gotos by assigning to a variable is very old-school
APL.



John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        cowan@ccil.org
Is a chair finely made tragic or comic? Is the portrait of Mona Lisa
good if I desire to see it? Is the bust of Sir Philip Crampton lyrical,
epical or dramatic?  If a man hacking in fury at a block of wood make
there an image of a cow, is that image a work of art? If not, why not?
                --Stephen Dedalus

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-17  3:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <30368.1613327707837544705@groups.io>
2021-02-14 19:08   ` Dan Cross
2021-02-16  6:31     ` John Gilmore
2021-02-17  3:49       ` John Cowan [this message]
2021-02-17  4:14         ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-17  5:51           ` [TUHS] " Bakul Shah
2021-02-18  3:23             ` John Cowan

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