17 Feb
2021
17 Feb
'21
5:14 a.m.
On Tue, 16 Feb 2021, John Cowan wrote:
In particular, doing gotos by assigning to a variable
is very old-school
APL.
I spent a fun year with APL\360 in CompSci, but could you please elaborate
on that? I know; this is an ASCII window on my MacBook so you won't be
able to show the code :-)
ObOF: Some joker once pinned an 80-column card with APL on it (yes, it can
be done) with a job card behind it to the Computer Centre's notice board;
under it was the inscription "Who said that APL programs weren't
transparent?"
-- Dave, who enjoyed that write-only language