30 Apr
2016
30 Apr
'16
8:38 a.m.
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