Re: Can't live without.

"aleph0" <apl68000@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:181c7fbf-e13e-44a3-b93a-6e7d320edc8b@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> again: interesting.
>> S.B. Jaffe, (then from Mobil Oil) mentioned in his paper (as a key
>> speaker) in Toronto '93 that the programmers wanted their Fortran
>> "loops, steps and indents".
>> The APL-ers decided to generate 20.000 lines of Fortran doing the
>> same as the APL-code of a few pages.
>>
>> (SIGAPL will have the video)
>
> In my early days before graduating to APL, I actually wrote a lot of
> Fortran IV code.
> I used an excellent Macro-generater package that enabled me to produce
> ca. 2,000 lines of bug free code per week.
> I wrote the Fortran to take great advantage of large main memory ..
> using multi-dimensional arrays ( 2 MB IBM mainframes were the hit in
> those days )
> APL was the obvious next step !

yes, but they wrote the Fortran-generator in APL ...