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Composition as a Programming Activity

Thu Dec 21 09:50:00 2006

When I started programming, you had four choices on the IBM 370 system that the University of Idaho made available to students: Cobol, Fortran, Basic, and APL. I learned Fortran and Basic, avoided Cobol because it was for "business", and looked on APL with wide-eyed wonder. "Someday," I thought, "when I'm all grown up, I'll learn APL." Well, of course, that day never came (I never grew up and I never learned APL). I'd kind of thought APL was dead--after all, you don't hear about it much. People refer, jokingly, to APL as a "write-only" language because it's very
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