From: Niall O Broin (nobroin at domain sced.esoc.esa.de)
Date: Fri 29 Oct 1999 - 12:21:43 IST
> 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 :-)
Kindest regards,
Niall O Broin
UNIX Network Administrator nobroin at domain esoc.esa.de
Ground Systems Engineering Department Ph./Fax +49 6151 90 3619/2179
European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Germany
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