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BitWise

rragan

bhaugen

reinout

mgrbyte

BitWise - 8 years

rragan - 1 years

bhaugen - 2 years

reinout - 3 years

mgrbyte - 2 years

BitWise

1981–1988

The first language I earnt money programming in. MicroAPL (CP/M 1.4), VizAPL (CP/M 2.2), IP Sharp (Online), IAPL (IBM PC) and IBM APL2

rragan

1986

bhaugen

1987–1988

Just played around, trying to learn to think in 64 dimensions.

reinout

1990–1992

Toying with IBM's APL2 floppy disk distribution. Made one real program with it. "APL" meaning "5 lines of code can already be really useful".

mgrbyte

2004–2005

gtani7

Did giant APL2 workspaces for securitized mortgages. Workspace exceeded 30 or 40 KLOC. The IBM consultants couldn't believe how big they were