Re: Programming?

["Robert G. Brown" <bob@xxxxxxx>]

>I took an APL class in college (along with a couple dozen
>other programming languages), and I'd stay as far away from
>APL as possible.
I don't know what sort of APL class this was, what the goal were, etc. 
One of the areas that has been revised heavily since you and I were in
college was how APL is taught, and how APL is used to teach things like
the discipline of programming. 

I never took an APL cource in college, but I monitored a couple later on,
and some of them were TERRIBLE! I won't bother defending them. That was also
a long time ago. 

>It's nothing like any programming languages used today (other than a 
>few oddball applications still using APL).
I don't understand the the use of the term "oddball". Is e-commerce oddball? 
Personnel systems? Banking? Manufacturing? Financial modeling? Insurance?

>I'd think it'd be more confusing than helpful.
We must agree to disagree here, your experience with APL is more remote, 
casual, and (unfortunately) not as successful as my own. I'll stand by what 
I've said, done, taught, and accomplished over the years with APL.

I recall that a couple of years ago, we were all reading about that "oddball"
OS -- Linux! :)

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