Re: Required common programming language

[Ken Caviness <caviness@southern.edu>]

Je 04:04 PM 15.01.98 -0700, Jim Green skribis:

> OK, Leigh, you have triggered a nerve center:  Truly APL is the only
> language the galaxy ever needed -- I was at IBM when it was developed -- in
> fact while cleaning up yesterday I ran across Ken Iverson's book -- You=
 make
> me remember the good ol' days. (:-)  The fact that the language was not
> pursued is a great loss.  But does the list know what APL stands for?????
> Recall that it was named by those nuts at the IBM Research Center.

We were *told* it stood for "A Programming Language".  What's the inside
story?

Join the resurrect-APL-movement!  ;-)

Ken

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