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> If you can internalize and understand the extremely concise and powerful syntax and semantics of the language (I haven't), you can do amazing things very qui
by sevensor 10y ago
> If you can internalize and understand the extremely concise and powerful syntax and semantics of the language (I haven't), you can do amazing things very quickly
Not to mention figuring out how to type APL -- that's where I got stuck.
- ktRolster 10y agoKeyboards are available, but they're expensive: http://www.dyalog.com/apl-font-keyboard.htm http://www.dyalog.com/apl-font-keyboard.htm
- kd0amg 10y agoDon't worry too much about typing it. The syntax of APL isn't all that powerful and actually limits how you can leverage the aggregate operation semantics.
- eggy 10y agoTry J then. It uses the ASCII character set, and has added some concepts that APL seems to be adopting. [1] And it is amazing what you can do once you have put some time into it. Jd and Jdb, both database apps for J beat Spark/Shark and others at the big data game. I'd call that pretty powerful. Similar to the way qdb/k is used a lot in the finance sector for ticker data, but J is opensource. [1] jsoftware.com