In the early 80's IBM's software configuration programs were written in APL. Was a contractor for them at the time.
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Andy Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jun 2016 09:46:44 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht < > [email protected]> wrote: > > . . . > > > >"I tried APL once, back in 77. I thought it was the perfect programming > language. One could write an entire program on/in one line of code. " > > > > The only thing I remember about APL is ")OFF". > > For some reason (lost in the mists of time) we regularly had TSO users who > managed to "accidentally" invoke the APL interpreter, which was almost > impossible to terminate unless you knew the above magic incantation. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Walter Davies Supervising IT Analyst [email protected] (530) 621-5420 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
