Labelling sockets (was Re: Wang 300 Calc)

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[Fred Cisin, quoting r.stricklin]

>> Funny you should mention that, Martin Ziskind recently pitched me a
>> total salesjob on the merits of APL.  It was quite surreal.
> It's nice and terse.  A word processor could probably be written in
> one line of code.

But it'd be a *really* long line!

[Chuck Guzis, replying to the same r.stricklin quote]

> It appears that there are no lukewarm opinions about APL.  Either you
> *really* like it and evangelize constantly about it (sort of like
> Forth) or you ignore it and sometimes refer to it as "that Iverson
> thing"...

Heh.  I seem to be an exception.  I like APL in many respects, and I'm
glad I know it...and I almost never do anything for which it would be a
right choice of language; I don't do much matrix juggling.  Same for
FORTH, actually, except that the "almost never" is less true.

Yet I evangelize for neither.  I wonder what's wrong with me. :)

[In passing, to Chuck Guzis, whatever generated your References: header
is a bit broken - it stuck commas in, and there should be no such
punctuation, just the <message-IDs>.]

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