home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!mm-mac17.mse.uiuc.edu!gaylord
- From: Richard J. Gaylord <gaylord@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Subject: Re: What is an APL language?
- References: <BxsL3r.EG@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
- Message-ID: <BxwsGn.D1x@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- X-Xxdate: Wed, 18 Nov 92 05:14:06 GMT
- Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner)
- X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
- Organization: University of Illinois
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 11:12:22 GMT
- X-Xxmessage-Id: <A72F819E7A039B11@mm-mac17.mse.uiuc.edu>
- Lines: 16
-
- Subject: Re: What is an APL language?
- From: David Gurr 4-6989 MR Sys, gurr@newsparc6
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 13:53:52 GMT
- In article <1992Nov17.135352.495@mr.med.ge.com> David Gurr 4-6989 MR Sys,
- gurr@newsparc6 writes:
- >Umm, speaking loosely, evaluation from right to left
- >allows one to read APL from left to right. Consider
- >f(g(x)) which is read "f of g of x" and is
- >calculated reduce x, apply g, apply f.
- >
-
- ===================
-
- is that right ? i also read apl from right to left. i 'read' f(g(x)) as
- "take x, then take g of x and then take g of the result". maybe just too
- much time spent in hebrew school.
-