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- ofalkaedThis submission popping back up from the second chance pool got me to do some digging for the formal description of system/360[0], this is not the APL we know today but the APL outlined in Iverson's A Programming Language[1].[0] https://www.cs.trinity.edu/~jhowland/class.files.cs2321.html...[1] https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APL.htm
- RyanHamiltonMy favorite quote from this video, that I wish more languages would embrace is:"I went from application to application trying to use the same techniques. The most encouraging thing is that they would work. After 2-3 years during which time the language had grown by accretion, it grew and grew, eventually I found it was shrinking. Essentially the idea was once you look at enough different applications you begin to see what is the general notion. So I came to generalisations that allowed me to take out whole chunks of special things I had put in. Furthermore to my surprise it turns out the general ideas are usually much simpler to understand than any of the special cases."
- TruffleLabsFor some more APL history see the "50 Years of APL" at the Dyalog URLhttps://www.dyalog.com/50-years-of-apl.htm
- NetMageSCWI was fascinated with APL after picking up a book on it at a bargain store and so took an APL class in college. It wasn’t offered in my CS curriculum, it was in the Architecture curriculum.
- dtgriscomI went to the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics in 1979, where we learned APL with all its glorious obscure characters and overstrikes. Lots of fun.
- jibal9-track tape drives, drum disks, rectangular switches and lights, IBM "THINK" logo, fast card readers ... all bring back many personal memories.
- bchIn the intro I liked the precursors to the IBM "Thinkpad" name.
- AndruLuvisi"The simple things are not obvious."Truer words were never spoken.