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From: TaliesinSoft on 29 Apr 2010 00:07
On 2010-04-28 22:06:52 -0500, Wes Groleau said:

> On 04-28-2010 00:21, TaliesinSoft wrote:
>> One who stands out to me is Kenneth Iverson, the person who
> ... invented possibly the most powerful language ever.
> Also the second most unreadable (second only to whitespace).

Prior to my first encounter with APL I had written compilers for Cobol,
Algol, and Fortran. Immediately after being exposed to APL I headed the
project to implement APL\700 for Burroughs, and then later the project
to implement The APL Machine on an Analogic array processing computer.
I'll be fair and state that it does perhaps take longer to fully
understand a line of APL compared to such as a line in Fortran, but
given that a single line of APL is likely equivilent to a multiplicity
of Fortran lines the difference in time to understand the full solution
to a problem is likely not that much different.

I've observed that once a person becomes fluent in APL there is
literally no turning back as other programming languages seem "clunky"
in comparison.

--
James Leo Ryan --- Austin, Texas --- taliesinsoft(a)me.com

From: Nollaig MacKenzie on 3 May 2010 14:56


On 2010.04.29 03:06:52,
the amazing <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> quoted in his sig:

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated
than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson

I think I'll steal this.

--
Nollaig MacKenzie
http://www.yorku.ca/nollaig
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