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Congratulations, you just listed some of the main APL primitives. They've been standardized and given standard names, even in Unicode, since the 70's or 80's? S
by arcfide 10y ago
Congratulations, you just listed some of the main APL primitives. They've been standardized and given standard names, even in Unicode, since the 70's or 80's? Sorry, I couldn't resist. :-)
- lmm 10y agoMany of them are present in the original lisp paper from 1960. Under standard names like "map" and "search" that are concise but still words.
- arcfide 10y agoIndeed, many of these ideas as expressed in APL come from the 1962 book, "A Programming Language." I find it unfortunate that these ideas are only now beginning to find some general acceptance in larger, more mainstream languages.