Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 04:34:52 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199710220934.EAA02952@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI Sender: Lojban list From: Veijo Vilva Subject: Re: APL & Lojban X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan In-Reply-To: ; from Karl Andrews on Tue, Oct 21, 1997 at 12:22:56PM -0700 X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 587 Lines: 13 la karl cusku di'e > > Another observation is that the Lojban Home Page is hosted from Finland. > Finland was known around the world in the mid-80s as a hotbed of APL > activity. Interesting coincidence? Veijo, are you familiar with APL? Well, I wrote a couple of programs in APL back in '68 or so on an IBM1130 with 16kb core memory, 1Mb HD and typewriter I/O (an APL ball :). The concept was nice, but the available hardware resources were kind of restricting (and still are if you'd like to handle matrices of, say, 5000000+ rows and columns :( co'o mi'e veion