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Could Numpy be considered the APL renaissance? Not in syntax, but conceptually?

• jacquesm 8y ago
  No, not for terseness. Numpy is nice because it extends Python in a reasonably good and efficient way but standalone it doesn't do much of anything and Python is so much more verbose than APL. That's the beauty of APL in a way: there really is nothing left to remove.
• samatman 8y ago
  It can be both! https://github.com/baruchel/apl https://github.com/baruchel/apl What I'm craving is APL for TensorFlow...
• dnautics 8y ago
  If we're going that way, I'd say Julia is closer.
  • ChrisRackauckas 8y ago
    In fact, it can get extremely close: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVv1GipR5yU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVv1GipR5yU And since you can define your own operators, you could just go all of the way.
    • dnautics 8y ago
      You can't define operator precedence though!! (That's a good thing). There was once a Julia talk about a really old programming language which disallowed any operator groupings without parens except for the basic seven or eight. https://gist.github.com/ityonemo/6512f3b4fd02b9a9cc292cf0f88534c5 https://gist.github.com/ityonemo/6512f3b4fd02b9a9cc292cf0f88... also string macros are cheating!