On 17 Oct 2007, at 16:20, Robert G. Brown wrote:
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Gerry Creager wrote:
Quote...
"Three things in life a man must do,
Before his days are done.
Write two lines of APL...
And make the sucker run."
OK, so it's not PL-I but APL was another interesting beast. A
friend had written an entire StarTrek game, including a 3d
universe, in APL and we wasted cycles waiting for long jobs on the
Amdahl 470v6 to complete that way...
Great little poem. I didn't write tic-tac-toe -- zero sum games that
always can be drawn being a bit on the boring side -- but I did write
MasterMind (the code-breaking game) on an IBM 5100 in APL.
...
It took more than two lines of APL, though...
IIRC if you compress your APL (using tricks like ", 0 \rho" to
concatenate two lines into one), you end up with every line starting
with a goto arrow because you can't branch out of the middle of a
line (or into the middle, come to that).
Back, slightly on topic, it's worth remembering that APL is a
supremely data-parallel language
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-- Jim
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James Cownie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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