ilug-admin at linux.ie wrote:
>> > Now all we need is an APL version
>> Hmmm - a quarter of a century ago when I first used a computer, and it was
> APL on an IBM mainframe, and it must be nearly 15 years since I last saw
> any APL. However, I'd be astonished if an APL factorial function took any
> more than half a dozen symbols, and it's probably a built in operation.
> Amazing the things you can do when you use a big character set, half of
> whose characters are complex operations :-) Even if I could remember what
> an APL factorial looked like, I couldn't email it, unless we all started
> using Unicode enabled mailers, maybe with that Ogham character set :-)
I worked with APL programmers last year, and an APL factorial function
is two characters long, and one of those is the operand :-)
Vin
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