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APL has a long an interesting history. It was successfully used for decades in Wall Street firms. It's also worth looking at * The A+ programming language, an
by rterzi 8y ago
APL has a long an interesting history. It was successfully used for decades in Wall Street firms.
It's also worth looking at
* The A+ programming language, an APL derivative created at Morgan Stanley by Arthur Whitney.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%2B_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%2B_(programming_language).
Roger Hui also worked there for a number of year.s
* The J language from Roger Hui - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Hui#J_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Hui#J_language
* Arthur Whitney and Kx Systems - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Whitney_(computer_scientist) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Whitney_(computer_scien...
- JulianMorrison 8y agoKona, a K implementation that's open source. https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona Useful for reading K-tradition C programming style, too.
- ColanR 8y agoI've been puzzled about Kona for a while, since I don't really see a purpose for it. K/Q is specifically intended as a very high-efficiency language, and Kona doesn't say anything about benchmarks.
- bakul 8y agoThe original reason may have been that k3 was not open source and the free version was limited. But in general people write these things for all sorts of reasons. Just as there are dozens of Scheme interpreters.
- wglb 8y agoAnd one chicago firm with APL in its name since its founding: https://www.manta.com/c/mm2mvtr/security-apl https://www.manta.com/c/mm2mvtr/security-apl