[dba-Tech] Programming language with special keyboard

APL? 

Compare it to the opposite concept with only eight command symbols.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck

:)


On 7 Mar 2014 at 15:21, Arthur Fuller wrote:

> Years (decades?) back, I worked briefly with a guy who used a
> programming that was designed especially for performing math
> operations. It was so specialized that it demanded the use of an
> entirely different keyboard, filled with various symbols indicating
> operations such as matrix multiplication etc. He used that language to
> create an app sold by his company, used in financial situations for
> things like generating 5-year forecasts by month, given some set of
> assumptions.
> 
> I never could read so much as a line of the code, nor even understand
> what the symbols meant. What I do remember is that the operations
> performed required a shockingly little amount of code.
> 
> I can't even remember the guy's name, nor the name of his company.
> Just that this special language was used in large banks and similar
> financial institutions. Any idea of the name of the language I'm so
> vaguely recalling?
> 
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