Hi Christian,
I can't quite follow the argument that :IF/:ELSE etc. makes it easier for
newcomers to learn APL. If I remember my learning of APL some decades
ago correctly, then, coming straight from ALGOL and BASIC as my first
"high-level" languages, I was overwhelmed by the large number of symbols
in APL. Adding even more alternatives (read :IF/:ELSE) to the existing
concepts (read: →) would most likely have confused me as a newcomer
more than it would have helped me.
I would also argue that a newcomer should first learn the core concepts of a
language before being distracted by the non-standard extensions of some
language dialects.
Best Regards,
Jürgen
On 2/20/21 7:59 PM, Christian Robert wrote:
well I saw the new thrends aka Quad-XML, Quad-JSON, Quad-FFT and so on
but I think thoses will never be used in real life or quite seldom.
I really think that Juergen should be looking at
:if/:elseif/:else/:endif
:for var :in array
loop
:endfor
:while condition:
loop
:endwhile
:do
loop
:until condition
this will eases newcommers to the language.
I know that APL goal is to do a whole "program" in one or two lines of code...
but the language must accomodate newcommers.
I asked for that several years ago (may me 8 or 10 years)
Juergen ansewered at that time "this can be done" but I wont yet
well my principal next improvements wish list is if/for/while/do_until
my real though,
Xtian.