Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: The "Standards" Game Date: 1 Dec 2025 20:08:07 GMT Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <106mke5$1di32$1@dont-email.me> <6jefmlxb6j.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10884l7$173em$1@dont-email.me> <1089ge2$1fvl9$8@dont-email.me> <10g52v4$3o78s$4@dont-email.me> <10g7bqf$j278$2@dont-email.me> <10gd4jq$2ptu7$4@dont-email.me> <10gejtd$39ian$2@dont-email.me> <10gh6dq$83hq$6@dont-email.me> <10gio4h$rhqc$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net hkzuBuo9kBm/2n2lXuAZsQwMLZGV4Xg032Vbm+QLk3pOsHdgJ5 Cancel-Lock: sha1:lwiCqKEnedcizcoK4FFkjkOcv9s= sha256:rF1GKCBUyxhH+zjuVQwdGGylF1wGicxBya+FOWgiG44= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:78159 alt.comp.os.windows-11:27799 On Sun, 30 Nov 2025 19:39:45 -0500, Paul wrote: > We used APL in High School, and, without instruction. > > It really helps if you have a Selectric typewriter for I/O, with the > Greek character set type ball. That makes all the difference. You have > pin-feed line printer paper, a box of it behind the Selectric, and you > can print out long lines of source, with authentic Rho and Iota > characters. My only brush with APL was with the IBM 5120. There was a switch to toggle between APL and BASIC, with the alternate aPL characters on the keycaps. The 5120 was the small business computer with training wheels that was supposed to ease the integration into a 'real' IBM system and IBM was fond of APL. The closest I've come to APL was sniffing at R. That was enough for me to conclude Python was fine for anything I wanted to do.