[wellylug] Non-standard languages on Linux
Cliff Pratt
enkidu at cliffp.com
Wed May 11 09:16:35 NZST 2005
Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
>
> APL and (I think) Haskell are good for processing information
> with minimal code, but it's been quite a while since I wrote
> APL, and I've only been reading a bit about Haskell.
>
> But it's easier to say things in APL than in C or Java.
> Closer to the conceptual flow. Unfortunately, no one pays me
> to use Haskell or LISP.
>
APL? It's been getting on for 20 years since I wrote any
APL. That's the language with the funny character set isn't it?
I once had the only functioning APL compiler/interpreter for
APL on the IBM mainframe. The one supplied by IBM (written
in APL) didn't work, and I fixed it. IBM came and asked me
for the code changes to make it work!
We had an APL guru visit from the States once. He announced
the latest and greatest which was ... roll of drums ... a
way of incorporating chunks of pre-compiled code into your
program! You could share your programs with others!
He wasn't too happy when I pointed out that other languages
had been using shared code libraries for years!
Cheers,
Cliff
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