What is the correct result?
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03-21-2024, 04:44 AM
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RE: What is the correct result?
As someone conversant with Fortran (high school and college), Basic (Commodore Pet and others), COBOL (work), and other computer languages, I really wanted to learn APL because it looked cool. I went to a computer swap meet while in San Francisco visiting a friend, and picked up a floppy disc with IBM’s TryAPL2 on it - an interpreter for APL code with examples. It was a great way to learn it without sinking a lot of money into a development environment (that came later). One year I entered a contest in Byte Magazine to write some APL code to solve a problem, and never heard back from them. Nor did they publish the follow-up article on it. I think it was Bill Machrone who posed the problem. I also got into J (jsoftware.com), which Kenneth Iverson and Roger Hui came up with as “APL without the funny characters”, using regular symbols like “,” and “;” and “<“ and “?” to do pretty much the same thing: have a simple way to write terse code. It confuses me because it is made up of verbs and adverbs and nouns and gerunds, and I never learned to diagram a sentence.
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