In the article ``Starting with a Clean Sheet'' (November 1994), Dick Pountain is not doing justice to modern APL when he says, ``it is tempting to describe CleanSheet as a visual APL for the 1990s.'' That's like saying, ``Counting is likely to be a good mathematics for the twenty-first century.'' Because of its nature, APL is not only one of the oldest computing languages but also one of the most promising of the next century. Ignoring APL is like sticking by writing the word plus rather than the symbol +. APL is the only language that can describe a problem and then execute it on a computer in the same code--and because that code is interpreted, at the speed of thought. ``APL as a Tool of Thought'' is not just a phrase.
Jan Karman
Almer, The Netherlands
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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