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- From: eem@ipsaint.ipsa.reuter.COM (Mcdonnell, Eugene E.)
- Subject: quote on APL interpreted
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.173012.1749@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM>
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 17:00:06 UT
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- no. 6922348 filed 16.26.22 fri 22 jan 1993
- from eem
- to uclapl
- subj quote on APL interpreted
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- Richard Gaylord is puzzled by the awkward Englishing of a
- sentence given in translation from the French, and attributed to
- Anthony Hoare.
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- My recollection is that the quote is not due to the Englishman
- Hoare but rather to the Dutchman Dijkstra, who, in an
- epigrammatic survey of the major programming languages, circa
- 1970, which was generally more insulting to other languages than
- to APL, wrote about it, as best as I can recall, that "APL is a
- mistake carried out to perfection." Praising with faint damn.
- Dijkstra came to visit the IBM Research laboratory in Yorktown
- Heights, New York, I believe about 1968, and was led into Ken
- Iverson's office there, where Ken gave him an introduction to
- APL. He showed no response.
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