Comment by rak1507
2 days ago
Well, you've said you used APL professionally, but judging by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31368299 it was in a university project.
2 days ago
Well, you've said you used APL professionally, but judging by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31368299 it was in a university project.
Regarding that link
>GNU is free but pretty much abandoned. Support for Windows was (is?) nonexistent.
GNU APL was never abandoned, dev just went a long time without doing a proper release. I believe the Windows issue is just with cygwin, never looked into it since I don't use Windows.
What a wild thing to comment.
a) “professional” writ large often encompasses academic research, even though it’s also often specifically used in contrast. Language is weird like that. Former and current academics like to have a term for all the stuff we’ve been paid to do, and we usually default to “professional experience” (though current academics do usually say “research experience” because you’re right that professional has the default connotation of corporate employment).
b) the project seems to have been over 2000 lines of APL. That’s not the “small” student project you’re implying, in any language, and in APL that’s quite substantial.
Most of it is boilerplate or written like it is Java, so it is pretty small compared to any real world projects.
To me professional implies production/real world/paid work, not just an unfinished academic project.
So you go through my profile and assume that you know my professional background? What makes you think that that's the only project where I've used APL?
Such poor quality comment.
I don't think he went through your profile, suspect he just remembered the discussion he had with you in the linked thread. But how about we end this? it is not productive or interesting.
I remembered it, and it seems like a reasonable assumption that your first experience of APL being so bad would put you off doing any more in the future.
They described it as "a non-trivial APL application" that they worked on for two years.