[Wylug-discuss] APL is the latest thing

[Graham Whaley]

(grrr - touchpad did early send...)
Maybe we'll see you grinning about APL on Monday - when I believe the
next meetup is (that's a reminder everybody...)

 Graham

On 23 July 2015 at 13:21, Graham Whaley <graham.whaley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22 July 2015 at 20:46, Darren Menachem Drapkin
> <darren.drapkin at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> I have just noticed,after looking for "APL programming language" on
>> youtube, that  APL is the latest thing in systems programming and
>> hardware control.
>> APLX, a proprietary brand of APL , is being used to operate a FPGA. It sets
>> it up as a specialist micro-processor, then runs a big data smoothing
>> exercise using something called a "binning" algorithm and the FPGA
>> beats the cpu hands down.
>
> I can only imagine how much that made you smile :-) - but, maybe we'
>>
>> --
>> Darren Drapkin
>>
>>
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