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From: Jack Rudd <jack.rudd@lmco.com>
Subject: Re: Programming language vote - results
Date: 1997/10/29
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Alan E & Carmel J Brain wrote:
> 
> Jack Rudd wrote:
> >
> > Alan E & Carmel J Brain wrote:
> > >
> > > ... Now I think that APL has a place,
> > > but only in small, one-use throw-aways, ---->8------
> 
> > I'm an algorithm developer.  The greatest value of APL for me is
> > in rapid prototyping.
> 
> Concur completely, an excellent example of 1-use throw-away is when
> you're developing and testing an algorithm! APL is one heck of a good
> rapid prototyping language. In fact, for algorithm design, I can't think
> of one better.
> 
I very seldom throw away a prototyped algorithm.  Write enough of
them (I'm coming up on 30 years of this activity), and one can 
prototype subsystems, then whole systems.  My APL96 paper describes 
one of these... an APL2 prototype of a "hard real-time" system.   

In general, I advocate translating a prototyped system from APL to
another language just prior to delivery to a customer...who, when he
screws it up, can't then blame his problems on APL!

Jack Rudd