J is the beautiful result of the APL road. On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 8:47 PM Lucio <lucio.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I never felt the need to join an APL fan club, but you sure tempt me, > Bakul! > > Is there one, or do we need to start one? What would be the minimal entry > qualification? > > APL is the only language I learnt that to this day feels like it shifted > my mindset much more than one notch. I didn't pay much attention to the > functional languages, though, my university lecturers seem to feel the > students either bought into them or didn't, they weren't going to push > them. I never quite made recursion my own, I almost always resorted to > translating it into stack-driven iteration. To this day. > > In passing, I studied at an institution where I had to arrange for the APL > interpreter to be installed (I was a little privileged, so I was allowed to > do it myself) and interactive computing became more prevalent while I was > there. APL wasn't a Computer Science subject, I became the only user of a > poorly supported, if valiant, interpreter. > > Lucio. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Michael T. Jones michael.jo...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
