APL\? (1990)

(dl.acm.org)

14 points by tosh4 days ago

3 comments

  • rnxrx30 minutes ago
    I love it when APL threads pop up here - really a novel approach to making computers do useful things. The videos from 1975 demonstrating it seem decades ahead of their time. I'm surprised APL hasn't had more of a resurgence given the recent ascendancy of data science.
    • veqq7 minutes ago
      APL is booming. There are a fair amount of new jobs onboarding non-APLers. Offshoots like BQN and Uiua have nice communities too.
  • tern1 hour ago
    Thank you! I&#x27;m writing an APL-lineage language right now (really, APL+Prolog+Lustre &quot;lineage&quot;) and hadn&#x27;t come across this paper.<p>I found an HTML version here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jsoftware.com&#x2F;papers&#x2F;J1990.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jsoftware.com&#x2F;papers&#x2F;J1990.htm</a>
  • zahlman1 hour ago
    Add `?download=true` to the link to view the PDF in your own reader software. (Although that probably doesn&#x27;t bypass the Cloudflare check.)
    • jolmg52 minutes ago
      One can also click the download button top-right