Re: Best Maths Computer Programming Language

Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>
> ediebur@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > Whatever happened to APL?
>
> For starters it needed a special keyboard. And programs written using
> it were mostly unreadable.

The answer may be to use J: http://www.jsoftware.com/

> I think that it was just a fad.

Hardly.

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