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

[Mark Wickens]

I have an interest in APL too which I struggle to fully understand. I'm not
great at maths. I think it is because the language is *so* different that
subconsciously believe it must have something to teach me.

I'm currently planning a project to take a relegendable keyboard and create
a Dyalog APL 'appliance' using a Raspberry Pi Zero. Will be a neat little
project if I can pull it off. Hopefully it'll get further than my luggable
VAX.

Man I hate typing on glass keyboards - and it looked so cool in Tron Legacy!

Regards Mark

On Saturday, 30 April 2016, <wonko at 4amlunch.net> wrote:

> A Canticle for Leibowitz?
>
> -brian
>
> > On Apr 29, 2016, at 14:32, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> On 29 Apr 2016, at 20:04, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Apr 29, 2016, at 1:00 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com
> <javascript:;>> 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.
> >
> > After The Event, once they invent transistors again, they’ll find a
> printout of your APL cryptanalysis program.
> >
> > They will then develop an even stranger language using Mayan hieroglyphs
> to decode your code.
> >
> > Sampsa
> >
> >
> >
>
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