The paper you referred to was a huge epiphany for me. Having previously worked in the business world using COBOL and FORTRAN the beauty and elegance of APL blew me away. It still does.
At IPSA we used to model proposed changes (mostly algorithms) to the interpreter in APL first. And then wrote the Assembly code to implement. > On Apr 13, 2020, at 11:48 AM, Dr. Jürgen Sauermann > <m...@xn--jrgen-sauermann-zvb.de> wrote: > > That was my point. If we could establish APL as a language for describing > algorithms. I was thinking > along the lines of Iverson's "Notation as a tool of thought" which is also > free now: > > https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/358896.358899 > <https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/358896.358899>
