From: Nemo <cym224@gmail.com>
To: Toby Thain <toby@telegraphics.com.au>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] APL - was Re: man-page style
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2018 12:07:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJfiPzwLRHeqtKf+=_uhTJne9mrS1zbDgdzVMvZj19zo3nCPEQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <97743c31-e625-39b1-902e-2e531e90ec6f@telegraphics.com.au>
On 04/12/2018, Toby Thain <toby@telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
> On 2018-12-04 2:48 AM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>> I can only say one thing: APL\360... Now, *there* was a write-only
>> language.
>
> For a more positive take on APL -- only for the open-minded -- try
> watching:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xCJ3BCIudI
>
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>> Oh, the stories that I could tell.
When I attended an UML course -- about a hundred years ago or so --
one of the attendees was from Reuters. He told us that they were
moving to C++ because they could not hire enough people to learn APL,
their preferred development language at the tim, even though willing
to teach them APL. He thought it far better suited to their task than
C++.
N.
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>> -- Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-04 17:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-01 23:09 [TUHS] " Norman Wilson
2018-12-02 2:37 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-12-02 2:44 ` Larry McVoy
2018-12-02 2:59 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-12-02 22:30 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-12-03 1:05 ` Warner Losh
2018-12-04 7:48 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-12-04 15:08 ` [TUHS] APL - was " Toby Thain
2018-12-04 17:07 ` Nemo [this message]
2018-12-04 17:55 ` Paul Winalski
2018-12-04 18:55 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-12-03 1:14 ` [TUHS] " Bakul Shah
2018-12-03 1:30 ` Larry McVoy
2018-12-04 21:26 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-12-04 21:34 ` Larry McVoy
2018-12-04 22:11 ` Bakul Shah
2018-12-05 6:50 ` Pierre DAVID
2018-12-28 6:32 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-12-04 22:54 ` [TUHS] swtch() (was: man-page style) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-12-05 15:33 ` Clem Cole
2018-12-28 6:31 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-12-30 19:05 ` Paul Winalski
2018-12-03 6:53 ` [TUHS] man-page style arnold
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