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On the name - APL was invented by an IBMer, Kenneth Iverson, when he was at Harvard in 1957. He wrote a book called "A Programming Language", and the language became known as APL, I guess.
I do know it is still used in actuarial work - it's amazing how it work with matrices and all that stuff, modeling, what-ifs, etc. Kurt, my IBM leader, figured he could consult in it and make a ton of money.
way back.
----- Original Message -----
Vernon Hamberg wrote:
Do I hear someone calling out APL? Yeah, often called a "write-only"
language!
Back when I was in high school, we had a couple of multiplex modems on
leased lines to the district's student timeshare system (a 370/135
running McGill University's MUSIC operating system). We had up to a
dozen terminals (a motley all-ASCII collection that included DECWriters,
Lear ADM-1s, Datamedia Elites, and so forth).
One of the terminals (a thermal printing terminal with a built-in
acoustic coupler modem; we called it "The Hotbox") had an APL keyboard,
and a switch on the front panel to select the APL character set.
And remember what APL stands for: "A Programming Language."
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JHHL
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