Subj : Re: curve for verbosity in a language To : comp.programming From : Gerry Quinn Date : Thu Aug 04 2005 11:18 am In article , ajo@nospam.andrew.cmu.edu says... > For a similar simulation of advanced control structures in APL, see > "Adding a modern control structure to APL without changing the syntax," > http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm/id=803676&type=pdf > It was the first relevant thing I found in a Google search. It's not quite > as syntactically clean, though, possibly because it's using a dialect of > APL with fewer or messier built-in magic things. I learned APL on a time-sharing system that had daisy-wheel typewriters and keyboards showing all the Greek symbols. When they changed to horrible dotted digraphs (even more horrible with the dot matrix printers of the day) the magic went away and I never looked at APL again... - Gerry Quinn .