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Last new feature added 16 years ago; Last fix (for 64-bit) done 11 years ago -- but likely, real development stopped a decade before that, when Arthur Whitney l
by beagle3 7y ago
Last new feature added 16 years ago; Last fix (for 64-bit) done 11 years ago -- but likely, real development stopped a decade before that, when Arthur Whitney left MS.
What he did later was create K (and kdb+ and now shakti), which are significantly farther away from APL (of which A+ is mostly just a very opinionated dialect), but which I personally find overall cleaner and more consistent.
- ajflores1604 7y agoI literally just heard about K for the first time while listening to fast.ai founder Jeremy Howard talk about it in a podcast, less than 5 minutes ago. (https://youtu.be/J6XcP4JOHmk?t=696 https://youtu.be/J6XcP4JOHmk?t=696) Do you recommend any resources for exploring these array languages? They sound really interesting.
- arthurcolle 7y agoYou can evaluate the 32-bit version of q by downloading the binary from here: https://code.kx.com/v2/ https://code.kx.com/v2/ The setup is a little annoying and you have to make sure q and the license file are in same directory or something, I vaguely remember that the error message was pretty cryptic but it is definitely worth taking it for a spin. It is an interesting piece of engineering and there are many interesting example scripts that you can find on the Web, although actually becoming productive in q is another matter entirely.
- hhas01 7y agoJust something I stumbled on while rummaging around: https://tryapl.org/ https://tryapl.org/