Re: [FWP] APL vs. Perl. A query from a lazy programmer.

[Ian Phillipps <igp_list2@tesco.net>]

On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 at 21:54:36 -0500, Keith Calvert Ivey wrote:

> (You're also missing the blank lines that were in the original 
> example, but that may not be important.)

Not in my book. I can't remember the exact format of the APL program's
output - the example in my mail was just pasted from some bridge site on
the www.

> But it'll probably take a completely different approach to get 
> below 200.  By the way, has anyone found this mythical APL 
> program?

Well, Uri Guttman has claimed to have written one - at about the time I
remember seeing it (1974). He's not come back saying if his got
published.

I saw it (I think) in a magazine article about APL showing how powerful
a language it is. And inadvertently demonstrating its read-only nature :-)

Ian

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