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A comment on Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?.

Re:Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still b... by alexcweiner on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @04:13PM (#13313155)
I use APL as the sole language for my current job. Previous job was also APL. cumulative 4 years, and I'm under 30 yrs old, which is a bit of an oddity.
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Re:Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still b... by alfalfasprout on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @08:13PM (#13314865)
APLs are really nice, though! I think they scare away newcomers since they look like brainfuck but it's incredible how you can write fairly intricate programs with one-liners. Also can be incredibly fast since array operations are straightforward to vectorize.

I just wish the K language or KDB+ was open sourced. We'd see people from just about every industry drooling over how nice it is.

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Re:Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still b... by pvitz on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @04:56PM (#13313501)
With companies like Simcorp, it doesn't sound so odd.
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