Re: direction

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Jeff Zeitlin wrote:

>On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 00:00:45 -0500, bfurniss
><bfurniss at IHUG.CO.NZ> wrote:
>
>>    What exactly is the J language ?   Java  ?
>
>No, for all intents and purposes, it's APL with keywords instead
>of hieroglyphics.
>
Now, I wouldn't sneer at that idea. One of my old IBM buddies worked with
the author of APL and was very good with it. He said, and I believe him,
that APL could produce some of the most compact code in the world. He
also called it a write-only language. He said that there were some perfectly
good, working programs that  neither he nor anybody else that he knew had
been able to figure out and they consisted of only one line of code.

So APL without the hieroglyphics might be a quite wonderful language, but
not at that price.

Everett L.(Rett) Williams
rett at gvtc.com

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