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From: Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
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Subject: Re: AffineTransform interpolation
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:17:41 +0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 18:02:18 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> On 10/11/2012 11:23 AM, Knute Johnson wrote:
>> On 10/10/2012 7:55 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 10/10/2012 10:44 PM, Knute Johnson wrote:
>>>> Anybody remember the name of the programming language from the 70s
>>>> that had a bunch of built functions for things like matrix math?  I
>>>> think it started with an A?  School had a PDP 8 or 11 and it ran on
>>>> that.
>>>
>>> APL?
>>
>> That's it Arne.  It's been so long I just couldn't remember any more. 
>> I wonder if it is still used?
> 
> I think it is quite rare.
> 
> But it is still used.
>
It used to be described as the ultimate write-only language. I remember 
it being said that Ken Iverson wrote a GUI style text editor in 25 lines 
of APL, but was unable to understand it six months later.
  
> I believe one of the more popular flavors/offspring is J:
> 
... also by Iverson!


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