17 Feb
2021
17 Feb
'21
9:49 a.m.
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 1:32 AM John Gilmore <gnu(a)toad.com> wrote:
There was clearly a lot of cross-fertilization between
early APL systems
and Bon. (APL was the first computer language I dug deeply into.) Some
of the common elements are the interactive execution environment,
untyped variables, and automatic application of builtin functions (like
+) across all elements of arrays.
In particular, doing gotos by assigning to a variable is very old-school
APL.
John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan(a)ccil.org
Is a chair finely made tragic or comic? Is the portrait of Mona Lisa
good if I desire to see it? Is the bust of Sir Philip Crampton lyrical,
epical or dramatic? If a man hacking in fury at a block of wood make
there an image of a cow, is that image a work of art? If not, why not?
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