on perhaps unloading modules?

[Hope Rouselle]

Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> writes:

> 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.

I really do not.  But I did.  That's really wild.  Dramatic.  Speechless.