Re:Learning APL
by ZachWick on Friday August 06, 2021 @10:49PM
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APL was originally created by Iverson as a notation used to teach mathematics and only became a programming language able to be executed by a computer around the time that (or shortly after) he published his book _A Programming Language_ [0] in 1962.
Even throwing away the “executable by a computer” part of APL and only considering it as a notation, APL can be powerful. Iverson gave a lecture, which was published as _Notation as a Tool of Thought_ [1] that contains a good discussion of what exactly makes a given notation “good”.
Even throwing away the “executable by a computer” part of APL and only considering it as a notation, APL can be powerful. Iverson gave a lecture, which was published as _Notation as a Tool of Thought_ [1] that contains a good discussion of what exactly makes a given notation “good”.
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20141027152546/http://www.softwa...
[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/358896.358899