Hi,
just my opinion...
The list of programming languages I used to use is looong.
When APL got deployed at IBM, all employees were supposed to learn APL -
for a supposedly more efficient work environment.
Few were able to efficiently use it.
Production Control code -> I modified it ~400 lin
Hi Jürgen:
> On Jan 8, 2021, at 4:18 PM, Dr. Jürgen Sauermann
> wrote:
>
> I'm a retired programmer and I still like to program as a hobby.
Ditto and Amen. This ]BOXING thing came up because I asked my colleagues if
there was a more
elegant APL way.
"Trying to get the neurons firing when w
On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 3:19 PM Dr. Jürgen Sauermann <
mail@jürgen-sauermann.de> wrote:
> [...]
> My current exercise is, by the way, ⎕XML which will become an
> interface to XML files.
> [...]
While XML was the name of the game a number of years ago, I'd like to see a
JSON interface!
--blake
Hi Peter,
yes, ⎕CR and ⎕FIO are entirely "nice to have" things that I felt could
be useful. ⎕CR is a pandora box of conversion functions while ⎕FIO
contains a collection of operating system functions.
I have tried to limit the number of functions in ⎕CR and ⎕FIO to
only those that are really tri
Hi Jürgen:
Thanks so much for your patient help.
Being so out of date with modern APL I am completely “gob-smacked” (as the
Brits used to say).
Did not realize how much ⎕CR has been extended from the 1984 IBM APL 2 Language
Reference Manual.
Ditto for the 2000 ISO Standard.
The elegance and be
Hi Brian,
thanks, fixed in SVN 1403.
Best Regards,
Jürgen
On 1/7/21 8:13 PM, Mr. Brian B.
McGuinness wrote:
I was trying examples of APL code from the book "APL2 At a
Glance" in order t
Hi Peter,
the allowed boxing values are those in ⎕CR. Those can be
displayed with
⎕CR ⍬
I have started to document all GNU APL functions and commands
(some years ago),
but haven't made much progress lately.
Best Regard
