17 Feb
2021
17 Feb
'21
11:51 a.m.
On Feb 16, 2021, at 8:14 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Tue, 16 Feb 2021, John Cowan wrote:
The goto operator is "-> label", while assignment is "var <-
value"
In Ken Iverson's 1962 book "A Programming language" he shows branches
by showing flowchart like arrow connecting a source stmt to target
but he doesn't use any goto or branch operator symbol or labels. So
not sure what John means.
As a grad student I did part time programming for a prof doing research
in cancer epidemiology. I convinced him to let me use APL instead of
PL/I but the "funny money" quickly ran out and it was back to PL/I!
In particular, doing gotos by assigning to a
variable is very old-school APL.
I spent a fun year with APL\360 in CompSci, but could you please elaborate on that? I
know; this is an ASCII window on my MacBook so you won't be able to show the code :-)