Re:Dyalog APL v15.0 Free for Non-Commercial Use
by sedachv on Friday July 01, 2016 @04:10PM
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> So what's the trick to using APL if you don't have the keyboard?
Snarky answer is to use J.
I have this hope that on-screen tablet keyboards will bring APL back. It's one of the few languages where you can actually be productive developing on a tablet or phablet because it requires so little typing. As well the idea of workspaces is something that would work well on modern phone OSes. Basically the same things that made APL a great choice for early personal computers (MCM/70 and IBM 5100 were both APL machines: http://www.xnumber.com/xnumber/MCM_70_microcomputer.htmhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5100) would make it work on phones.
Snarky answer is to use J.
I have this hope that on-screen tablet keyboards will bring APL back. It's one of the few languages where you can actually be productive developing on a tablet or phablet because it requires so little typing. As well the idea of workspaces is something that would work well on modern phone OSes. Basically the same things that made APL a great choice for early personal computers (MCM/70 and IBM 5100 were both APL machines: http://www.xnumber.com/xnumber/MCM_70_microcomputer.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5100) would make it work on phones.