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[_] The worst scripting language in the world

Jan Grant jan.grant at bristol.ac.uk
Thu Jul 3 08:35:06 BST 2008 

On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, James Fidell wrote:

> Jan Grant wrote:
> 
> > If you've an interest in seeing a serious language like this, you might 
> > want to have a hunt around for the original (ie, tty-based) APL.
> 
> Hunt for it?!  I've *programmed* in it!  It's the designers who need
> hunting.

Heh, I'm not going to launch into a defence of APL; its compact 
vector-based approach was hugely novel, but some of the other design 
decisions really do look a little dated. This is great:

	http://www.sigapl.org/whyapl.htm

Not sure about "easy to debug" though :-) Still have a copy of the - 
what, mid 60s? "a programming language" book knocking around somewhere.



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