APL\? (1990)

 (dl.acm.org)

17 points | by tosh 4 days ago

3 comments

  • rnxrx 1 hour ago
    I love it when APL threads pop up here - really a novel approach to making computers do useful things. The videos from 1975 demonstrating it seem decades ahead of their time. I'm surprised APL hasn't had more of a resurgence given the recent ascendancy of data science.
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    • veqq 59 minutes ago
      APL is booming. There are a fair amount of new jobs onboarding non-APLers. Offshoots like BQN and Uiua have nice communities too.
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      • rnxrx 48 minutes ago
        Awesome! I'll be sure to check them out.
    • geeunits 38 minutes ago
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  • tern 2 hours ago
    Thank you! I'm writing an APL-lineage language right now (really, APL+Prolog+Lustre "lineage") and hadn't come across this paper.

    I found an HTML version here: https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/J1990.htm

  • zahlman 2 hours ago
    Add `?download=true` to the link to view the PDF in your own reader software. (Although that probably doesn't bypass the Cloudflare check.)
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    • jolmg 1 hour ago
      One can also click the download button top-right