What's wrong with APL2

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What's wrong with APL2

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International Conference on APL archive
Proceedings of the international conference on APL-Berlin-2000 conference table of contents

Berlin, Germany

Pages: 35 - 38

Year of Publication: 2000

ISBN:1-58113-182-8

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Author

James A. Brown

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SIGAPL: ACM Special Interest Group on APL Programming Language

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Design of a programming language is both an art and a science. A notation must be formally correct yet usable. Formal correctness is subject to rigorous analysis but usability is more difficult to measure. If there was only one correct formalism, language design would be easy --- identify the correct notation, implement it, and use it. Unfortunately there are many correct notations and reasonable people may have differing opinions as to which is more usable. This paper will discuss some features of APL2 which, while not exactly wrong, might have been more useful had a different choice been made. Unfortunately this is quite a short paper.

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Primary Classification:
D. Software
D.3 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
D.3.2 Language Classifications

Nouns: APL