Maybe re-run with Dash or Ash? [LWN.net]

Maybe re-run with Dash or Ash?

Posted Feb 5, 2007 20:33 UTC (Mon) by AJWM (guest, #15888)
In reply to: Maybe re-run with Dash or Ash? by bronson
Parent article: Comparing Linux and Minix

> (and has the most convoluted syntax of any programming language that I know -- including APL -- but I digress...)

Hey, APL's syntax is dead simple: evaluate right to left and functions are either monadic or dyadic (or niladic, I guess). The character set, on the other hand...

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Maybe re-run with Dash or Ash?

Posted Feb 15, 2007 20:13 UTC (Thu) by donbarry (guest, #10485) [Link]

...and the syntax exceptions engendered by array indexing and assignments in APL.

Never fear, Iverson fixed this before his death with his magnum opus,
the chief successor to APL, "J" (www.jsoftware.com). And it uses only
ASCII characters in clever way. It is similar enough to APL to be
classifiable as a dialect.

Now if only this gang really understood the ecosystem of free software. A
free version (as in freedom, not as in beer, which is their current offering) is at the top of my wishlist in software.