[dba-Tech] Programming language with special keyboard

Actually think the book was titled APL 360, almost did me in on my computer
tool for a Ph.D.  FORTRAN made a lot more sense to me, pretty logical.


On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 11:26 PM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Definitely is. ;-)
>
> Jim
>
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> From: "Stuart McLachlan" <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
> To: "Peter Brawley" <peter.brawley at gmail.com>, "Discussion of Hardware
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>
> 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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