Handling 3 operands in an expression without raising an exception

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Sat Sep 28 07:18:13 EDT 2013


On 2013-09-27 11:43, Dave Angel wrote:

> You should study APL.  Many functions were written in one line, with
> twenty lines of explanation.  The function itself was considered
> unreadable nonsense. And if a function stopped working, general wisdom
> was to throw it out, and re-implement the explanation. I studied it
> briefly in class in 1970, and have no idea if there are current
> implementations.

You are in luck! GNU APL 1.0 was just released!

   http://www.gnu.org/software/apl/

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco




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