[SGVLUG] APL (A Programming Language) was Re: Response to some posts...

[Dustin Laurence]

On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 04:46:38PM -0700, David Lawyer wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 09:07:11AM -0700, A. J. Stasney wrote:
> > 
> > On the database/spreadsheet issue, this will ONLY be of any use
> > to those who have some familiarity with the legacy array oriented
> > programming language APL2 (IBM is now apparently the only US seller
> > and promoter of this high-level interpreted language).
> 
> There's aplx available free for personal use on Linux and a+ (aplus is
> a debian package) which claims to be like apl.  I've never tried
> either of them but have used apl in a statistics class, etc.  In fact
> there was a whole book on statistics which expressed the formulas
> using apl.

There is also a successor (of sorts) language that attempts to keep the
matrix orientation and functionality of APL but be usable with a
standard keyboard--the name is "J", I think, continuing the grand
tradition of naming languages with single consonants.

Dustin
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