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Leslie Goldsmith, from I.P. Sharp to KX

The Array Cast

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Is There a Formal Proof That the Two Systems Were Incompatible?

Sharp was originally a hacked STSE APL plus where they changed this so they actually did change it from being a floating type system to be it the flip the box. There were attempts at unifying them and early 80s I think but you could be clearly shown that that's not possible and not compatible with each other. You could have an implementation that simultaneously allowed the user to choose. That is it supports both but you make a choice. But even so the rest of the language breaks down.

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