4 Dec
2018
4 Dec
'18
11:07 p.m.
On 04/12/2018, Toby Thain <toby(a)telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
On 2018-12-04 2:48 AM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
When I attended an UML course -- about a hundred years ago or so --
one of the attendees was from Reuters. He told us that they were
moving to C++ because they could not hire enough people to learn APL,
their preferred development language at the tim, even though willing
to teach them APL. He thought it far better suited to their task than
C++.
N.
I can only say one thing: APL\360... Now,
*there* was a write-only
language.
For a more positive take on APL -- only for the open-minded -- try
watching:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xCJ3BCIudI
>
> Oh, the stories that I could tell.
-- Dave