[Info-vax] [OT] APL (Was: Re: Re: DCL's flaws (both scripting and UI))

[Ken Robinson]

On 2015-01-21 12:42, Norm Raphael wrote:
>> On 01/21/15, abrsvc<dansabrservices at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  >
>> APL is the only languages where it is easier to re-write the code than
>> to debug it. Consise, yes. Short programs. yes. Easy to read and
>> understand, not so much.
> 
> I wrote a program once in APL containing as array sort.  It worked, but
> when I looked at it later that day, I could not read the code.
> 
>  Norman F. Raphael
> "Everything worthwhile eventually
> degenerates into real work." -Murphy

I had a friend who used APL to write a simulation of the game of Risk 
for his Masters Thesis. This was in the early 1970's on either an 
IBM/360 or IBM/370.

It was a learning program and after a few weeks, he was unable to beat 
the program. He also had to get permission to run the program, since 
when it was running nothing else could run on the machine.

I tried learning APL, but could never get the hang of it. I had more 
success learning LISP (which isn't saying much!) :)

Ken