APL/360; an interactive approach
by Leonard Gilman · first published 1970
2mentions
1recommended by
2HN commenters
2018–2019first – last mentioned
50% recommend50% neutral
Affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
…two are also sometimes in the APL Orchard chatroom on StackExchange. Online there's https://tryapl.org/ run by Dyalog, and https://tio.run/# which has three APL interpreters. The classic 1970s book "APL\360 an Interactive Approach" by Gilman and Rose is online as a PDF here: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/apl/Books/ with other books as well. That's before the {} syntax for anonymous functions was added to the language,…
on “Non-English-based programming languages” ↗…write a program to do these calculations. As I recall, it wasn't too difficult using APL. I believe that we were given or used some sort of IBM manual to learn APL. I just searched my library and found APL/360 An Interactive Approach by Gilman and Rose, 1970[1]. However, APL was most definitely not the focus of the course so I think this was a book I bought a couple of years later in grad school for myself. We wrote the programs…
on “A History of APL in 50 Functions” ↗