Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
Path: watmath!watserv2.uwaterloo.ca!torn!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!mm-mac17.mse.uiuc.edu!gaylord
From: Richard J. Gaylord <gaylord@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Re: What is an APL language?
References: <BxsL3r.EG@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
Message-ID: <BxwsGn.D1x@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
X-Xxdate: Wed, 18 Nov 92 05:14:06 GMT
Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner)
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Organization: University of Illinois
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 11:12:22 GMT
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A72F819E7A039B11@mm-mac17.mse.uiuc.edu>
Lines: 16

Subject: Re: What is an APL language?
From: David Gurr 4-6989 MR Sys, gurr@newsparc6
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 13:53:52 GMT
In article <1992Nov17.135352.495@mr.med.ge.com> David Gurr 4-6989 MR Sys,
gurr@newsparc6 writes:
>Umm, speaking loosely, evaluation from right to left 
>allows one to read APL from left to right. Consider
>f(g(x)) which is read "f of g of x" and is 
>calculated reduce x, apply g, apply f.
>

===================

is that right ? i also read  apl from right to left.  i 'read' f(g(x)) as
"take x, then take g of x and then take g of the result".  maybe just too
much time spent in hebrew school.
