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Article #168Re: APL is so popular!
From: Don Libes
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1985 22:44
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1985 22:44
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> > Aren't interpreted languages popular?!
>
> Yes, interpreted languages are popular!
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Its not that they're popular, its that they're more fun.
And C programmers are going to discover this any day now. I just
completed a review of 3 C interpreters and I'm getting several more to
look at. These interpreters behave just like APL or Lisp, in that they
are completely interactive.
I won't mention the advantages of APL here - that would be pointless,
but having a C interpreter means you can take your development code and
compile it into very fast code, you don't need a large runtime, you
don't use funky symbols and you can interface easily with the rest of the
universe.
On the other hand, so what? C programmers finally have the same tools
that APL programmers had 20 years ago. But when is APL going to move
forward?
Don Libes {seismo,umcp-cs}!nbs-amrf!libes
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