Oskar45 wrote:
... at my next working place IBM's
APL2
- not APL/2
The version that ran on OS/2 was called ... wait for it !! drumroll, please ... APL/2. Like most everything else that ran on OS/2 ....
There was a guy generating pretty complex geometry with APL/2 and the graphics package IBM created for it. Also, apparently Morgan-Stanley used it a lot for statistics and so on ... not that I can approve of that but still
If it didn't need a special keyboard it might have been more popular. Also, it's interpreted so if you don't have an interpreter, you're screwed. Coulda woulda shoulda been what Java became, maybe. It's pretty neat but .... so is Rexx. I wonder why Rexx never became very popular ? It's much nicer than Basic and not much harder to learn.
Now we've got stuff in there that's a year old and a bunch of stuff that breaks things and ... it's no longer so wonderful
PymbleSoftware wrote: Keywords : SQL Lite 3, firefox firefox-bin rld: Fatal Error sqlite3_enable_shared_cache unresolvable symbol
but we're kind of stuck with gmake, it works okay and most fossy apps depend on it. There's a recent one in nekoware.
cybercow wrote: Another 4Dwm sight, X-Files, episode with title "Aubrey" (1995) watching last night. Agent Scully and Mulder are using some kind of medical application, scanner or i dunno custom toy, there is no sight of any SGI machine nearby, seems hidden or below the desk they're seating.
jan-jaap wrote: Power
I've got two extra power groups, 220V with slow 16A fuses (normal fuses are fast, which makes it hard to re-engage the fuse if it trips with a lot of systems running).
Wish I still had it
That "move mouse over photo for enlarged view" was stolen from taobao. Intellectual Property Theft ! Intellectual Property Theft ! Help ! Murder ! Police ! The biggest screamers are the first offenders ... "look and feel" Apple, iphone the
registered trade mark of Cisco Systems
, but when it becomes inconvenient Apple could care less about "intellectual property." Al Capone would be proud.
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Alver wrote: Oy... so closeI'm seriously tempted.
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Youse guys are okay .... grazie, grazie from all of us non-programmers.