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I have a feeling that apl (or j) based calculator app (with buttons for all fancy symbols) could be something. All those nice powerful one liners seem to be sui

I have a feeling that apl (or j) based calculator app (with buttons for all fancy symbols) could be something. All those nice powerful one liners seem to be suited for such app. I wonder if something like that is available. I know there is j for Android, but having a nice closed interface focused on short clever code would be fun.

codesections 7y ago
https://tryapl.org/ https://tryapl.org/ gets 70% of the way to what you're talking about (though it's obviously missing the closed-interface-focused-on-calculator-functionality part)
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TurboHaskal 7y ago
I have J and Retro (it’s a Forth but they’re similar in spirit) on the iPhone. Doing programming puzzles with those on the train is fun and you don’t have to type much.
synthmeat 7y ago
I've mentioned to others this already, but I'd pay good money for real APL pocket calculator.
- dTal 7y ago
  You could probably make this happen by compiling a portable APL to one of the programmable graphing calculators with a working C compiler.
  - rscho 7y ago
    Except that what GP really wants is an APL keyboard to go with that.
agumonkey 7y ago
I grew up with a HP48g and for some reason I never considered a handheld APL. That would be the only thing to match HP RPL :)
- jodrellblank 7y ago
  dzaima/APL is implemented in Java and can be built as an Android app; steps in the readme here: https://github.com/dzaima/APL https://github.com/dzaima/APL and downloadable APK and screenshots here: https://github.com/dzaima/APL/tree/master/AndroidIDE https://github.com/dzaima/APL/tree/master/AndroidIDE (I think; I've never used it)
  - agumonkey 7y ago
    hehe, pretty nice