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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
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Subject: Re: How to Choose a Programming Language
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Date: 11 May 91 11:18:23 GMT
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gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:

>It's too bad you got a biased presentation of the language.
>In actuality, one can code intelligibly in APL, and it has great
>expressive power.

I understand that -- we saw how compactly APL can represent matrix operations
and it seems that APL is actually a lot like unix; once you understand the
seemingly cryptic shorthand you can type in rather powerful commands, programs,
and such almost as fast as you can think them through.

My comments were intended in the humorous manner of the previous post.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu