[HECnet] OFF-TOPIC (but it's Friday guys): APL FAIL

[Paul_Koning at Dell.com]

> On Apr 29, 2016, at 1:00 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> To be honest, APL looks like MUMPS using a bad dialup connection to me..
> 
> How the HELL could anyone understand that?

It just takes practice.  It's certainly not as bad as TECO.  :-)

Then again, I remember hearing Ron Rivest talk about a chip design program he wrote in APL -- 1000 lines.  That's scary.

I learned APL fairly recently, as a tool to do cryptanalysis.  I suppose there's some irony in that.

	paul