Re: APL in Colorado, USA? Am I the last one?

On Apr 23, 11:51 pm, AAsk <AA2e...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> It would be interesting to read a detailed account of what swayed the
> Matlab fellow. Perhaps a book on APL and advanced mathematics is
> needed.
>
> A while ago,
>
> 1. I was exploring the shortest path problem using APL: I wanted to
> list all the paths. The shortest path is easily given by APL, see
> Learning & Applying APL by B Legrand.  No APL text book delved into
> this area ie. enumerate all the paths. Google highlighted several non-
> APL solutions. Eventually I found an APL solution written by a US
> academic (can't remember the URL).
>
> 2. A colleague was doing an investifation. Take the UK national
> lottery - it has 6!49 combinations where the first (1,2,3,4,5,6) and
> the last (44,45,46,47,48,49) have each got a sum and the number of
> combinations that have the same respective sum is exactly 1. The
> objective was to list each sum between the 2 with the number of
> combinations ... quickly. After a lot of experimentation, the solution
> ran in less than 2 minutes on a 1.6 GHz Pentium processor.
>
> I've heard that APL had something to do with the planning of the
> (glass) roof of the British Library but not read about it.
>
> More in print on the undeniable case for APL would be very welcome.
> Would it not?

What swayed the Matlab fellow was working with me and seeing that I
could develop new approaches using APL2, and test them, before he
could begin to start doing so.  He then started using APL2 himself
beginning with a workspace of mine as a template.

Yes, it would be welcome; but people just don't believe until they see
for themselves.  And many don't believe even then.  It's too
unsettling, apparently.