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)
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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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