Re: APL - Alive and Well!

On May 15, 1:04=A0am, Steve <st...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>  =A0I'm thnking of an APL version of Google AppEgine
> (http://code.google.com/appengine/)
targeted at APL developers who
> have an idea for a web application, but don't have the skills, time,
> or inclination to set up a web front end, storage, backup, 24x7 uptime
> sup****t for the application they know they can write in APL.
>
> This may not make business sense for IBM/APL2, and it remains to be
> seen if Google's venture will be successful, though I suspect it
> will. =A0It provides a very low barrier to entry for development and
> initial deployment (essentially zero cash), making it easy to try out
> business ideas that may be wacky, or might be a gold mine. =A0There are
> a lot more Python programmers than there are APL programmers and it
> should contribute to their ad revenue based business model. =A0Of course
> there are a lot more Java programmers than Python programmers, but
> Java is far less suited to rapid application development by a small
> team (maybe of one) than Python or APL.
>
> I do think this is a potential op****tunity for an enterprising APL
> vendor.

This is interesting.

"App Engine provides a runtime environment that uses the Python
programming language. Other programming languages and runtime
environment configurations are being considered for future releases."

APL should be considered for future releses.

Google is basically now starting with zero users and aims at having
millions in a short time.
And all for free, language, sup****t and storage.

Hard to compete against such options and probably better to join in if
possible.