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

[Ian Miller]

On Wednesday, January 21, 2015 at 5:55:05 PM UTC, Ken Robinson wrote:
> 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


You may find the programming language 5 interesting. It does run on VMS 
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/journal/v15/stack_array.html