[time-nuts] I want a good micro-controller

Lux, James P james.p.lux at jpl.nasa.gov
Fri Sep 5 09:43:47 EDT 2008


APL..
Maybe they're talking about things like the famous 6000 lines of ECAP in FORTRAN IV done in APL in 600 lines by a grad student, etc.
(not surprising.. ECAP is lots of matrix math, which is VERY dense in APL.. Mind you, today Matlab would do almost the same)


See http://www.sigapl.org/whyapl.htm  (scary thing is, I've actually used APL on both the STSC timesharing systems and the IBM 5100)
The following statement appears there:
Several people have written BASIC compilers in APL.

I also like this one, in the FAQ-like section at the end:
DP managers will lose control if 'everybody' does his or her own thing by having individual access to computers


On 9/5/08 6:26 AM, "Mark Sims" <holrum at hotmail.com> wrote:



Somewhere out there is a complete Fortran compiler written in APL that  fits on a single 8.5x11 inch sheet of paper...  Beware,  programmers have turned to screaming, blithering idiots with bits of their brains oozing out all of their orifices  just by glancing at that page.

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Not quite as horrid as the guys who felt I necessary to write APL
"one-liners".  This elevated obscurity to a whole new art form.

D.
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