what is easier to learn first?...

Dennis Lee Bieber wlfraed at ix.netcom.com
Wed Mar 22 02:08:39 EST 2000


On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 04:12:04 GMT, nobody at nowhere.nohow (Grant Edwards)
declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:

> It's been a log time since I've heard much about APL.  I found
> it unpleasant, but perhaps my APL experience was tainted by the
> fact that I had to use it on dumb terminals attached to a
> heavily overloaded VAX running VMS, and all of the documentation

	Guess I was lucky. My college had two or three Tektronix storage
display terminals with a true APL keyboard.

	Kind of interesting to think that APL was designed for algorithm
publication, and only made a real language after the fact...


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