Toby Thain via cctalk wrote on Thu, 13 Apr 2017 19:34:08 -0400 > On 2017-04-13 6:54 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > > So, whence APL today? > > Still lives on -- Dyalog, J, K, etc. Recently discovered the #jsoftware > channel on Freenode for APL fans.
I consider Matlab and Julia to be spiritual descendents of APL. One thing that hurt APL in early microcomputers was that they used text mode with the wrong font. I would also have guessed that Basic could work better in really limited hardware, but some early APL implementations were impressively frugal. -- Jecel
