Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/12/84; site nbs-amrf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!nbs-amrf!libes From: libes@nbs-amrf.UUCP (Don Libes) Newsgroups: net.lang.apl Subject: Re: APL is so popular! Message-ID: <26@nbs-amrf.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Oct-85 18:44:27 EDT Article-I.D.: nbs-amrf.26 Posted: Thu Oct 3 18:44:27 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Oct-85 07:25:39 EDT References: <61200001@trsvax> <16640@watmath.UUCP> Organization: National Bureau of Standards Lines: 22 > > Aren't interpreted languages popular?! > > Yes, interpreted languages are popular! > Its not that they're popular, its that they're more fun. And C programmers are going to discover this any day now. I just completed a review of 3 C interpreters and I'm getting several more to look at. These interpreters behave just like APL or Lisp, in that they are completely interactive. I won't mention the advantages of APL here - that would be pointless, but having a C interpreter means you can take your development code and compile it into very fast code, you don't need a large runtime, you don't use funky symbols and you can interface easily with the rest of the universe. On the other hand, so what? C programmers finally have the same tools that APL programmers had 20 years ago. But when is APL going to move forward? Don Libes {seismo,umcp-cs}!nbs-amrf!libes