Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Fri Mar 7 22:26:09 CST 2014
Definitely is. ;-) Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart McLachlan" <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg> To: "Peter Brawley" <peter.brawley at gmail.com>, "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Friday, March 7, 2014 1:22:24 PM Subject: Re: [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? > > -- _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com