on perhaps unloading modules?

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

On Sun, 22 Aug 2021 16:28:12 -0300, Hope Rouselle <hrouselle at jevedi.com>
declaimed the following:


>That's wild. :-) Was this created by Brian Kernighan?  It's hard to
>believe.  Oh, I think he wrote AMPL, wasn't it?  A Mathematical
>Programming Language, or something like that.

	Kenneth Iverson, early 1960s for release, though he started in the late
50s (so a decade before Kernighan). I believe it started life as a notation
for publishing reports, not as an actual implemented language.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)#Development_into_a_computer_programming_language>
{Hmmm, supposed to have influenced Matlab, S, and Wolfram/Mathematica}

	One of the quirks is that one reads APL from right to left... cf:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)#Pick_6_lottery_numbers>

	You do not want to look down at the one-liner for Conway's Game of
Life.


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