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From: 6035230@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM (Charles Schulz)
Subject: Re: J is NOT APL (was Re: Interpreter advice sought.)
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From: cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
Subject: Re: J is NOT APL (was Re: Interpreter advice sought.)
Message-ID: <1993Jan28.194511.20795@csi.uottawa.ca>
Date: 28 Jan 93 19:45:11 GMT

 ...                             The fact that APL uses a different
order of operations than people are used to is also confusing.
Right-to-left evaluation isn't "normal."  ...
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Most other languages besides APL and J DO use right-to-left evaluation --
consider assignment (=, :=, etc.):  the thing on the left gets everything
to the right.  Of course, those languages ALSO use left-to-right
evaluation, perhaps even in the same assignment line -- that may be
"normal" but I find that more confusing.

/Charles A. Schulz
cschulz@lmsc.lockheed.com
