an obscure but very powerful matrix-centered programming language usually considered to be "write only", as in impossible to read what someone else wrote.
40 years ago (at school) I generally wrote in ink - edged and straight nibs, blue and black ink because I liked it. I learned several formal styles as well as my idiosyncratic efforts. I did have biros and fibre tips etc available. I had loads of choice. My parent's generation was probably the last of the ink and nib first users.
I see weird symbols like that I think APL. I haven't touched APL but I know weird symbols when I see it.
And checking the article... Tags: apl
Aren't those the Twin Pines from Back to the Future?
Did you mean the Lone Pine?
You space bastard! You killed my pine!
My very first thought as well.
Appears like the twin pines cooperativism symbol.
What does [APL] even mean?
an obscure but very powerful matrix-centered programming language usually considered to be "write only", as in impossible to read what someone else wrote.
> usually considered to be "write only"
Only by the ignorant and uninitiated.
I’m sure you’re fun to work with
I am!
> as in impossible to read what someone else wrote.
Can you even read what you wrote several years ago?
40 years ago (at school) I generally wrote in ink - edged and straight nibs, blue and black ink because I liked it. I learned several formal styles as well as my idiosyncratic efforts. I did have biros and fibre tips etc available. I had loads of choice. My parent's generation was probably the last of the ink and nib first users.
Wait, isn't that what they say about perl?
"a programming language".