And it was completed self-contained. There was no wire going off behind the curtain somewhere, and I fell in love with it. And you could program BASIC in APL.

它是一台以独立工作的一体机，我很喜欢。它使用Basic或APL编程。

So, you get too many results to make yourself useful. Or maybe you just are near a computer or wifi. That's when APL can make a difference.

所以，搜索到了大量的结果，而有用的信息却少的怜。或者您身边正好有台电脑或者无线网络。这就是APL发挥作用的时候了。

Other language perhaps more so, I started with APL. -Yeah.

其它程序语言对我的能影响还多些，但我最先学了APL。-嗯。

And you could program in BASIC and APL.

你以在上面用Basic和APL语言编程。

APL has been answering people's questions by looking things up in a variety of texts, recordings and another resources.

APL以通过查阅各种文本、录音和其他资源来回答人们的问题。这些人都是专家研究员。

With APL you can put questions to an information specialist at the PIL library for over 40 years.

有了APL，您以向Python图形库(Python Image Library)40多年的信息专家提问。

Then how can you access APL? You can call 21518 between 9: 00 am and 6: 00 pm Monday through Saturday.

那么如何使用APL呢? 您以在周一至周六上午9点到下午6点之间致电21518。

Yeah, you're going into the open office to voice dictate some APL code.

是的，你要去开放办公室用语音输入一些APL代码。

But to your point about language helping you think, one of the big things about MATLAB and APL before it, I don't know if you remember APL.

但说到语言帮助你思考这一点，MATLAB和它之前的APL有一个很大的特点，我不知道你还记得APL不。

By 2014, 70 million APLs had been removed and more than 4,000 square kilometres, 1,544 square miles of mined areas cleared.

截至2014年，已清除7000万枚杀伤性地雷，并清理了超过4000平方公里（1544平方英里）的雷区。

An APL bought for three dollars, two pounds fifty.

一个以3美元或2.5英镑购买的APL。

And you're saying MATLAB and APL were the early seed.

你说MATLAB和APL是早期的种子。

APL has characters that mean summation, and they have adverbs.

APL 有表示求和的字符，并且它还有副词。

And the language, APL, very much like Perl, is people would pride themselves on how much could they write the game of life in 30 characters of APL.

而且这门语言APL， 很像Perl，人们会以能在30个字符的APL代码中写出生命游戏而自豪。