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APL is readable more or less like you'd read English, so it's not hard to decipher. You can find a lot of talks on the normal video-sharing sites from people li
by kick 7y ago
APL is readable more or less like you'd read English, so it's not hard to decipher. You can find a lot of talks on the normal video-sharing sites from people like Aaron Hsu and Roger Hui demonstrating this. The modern Dyalog style of writing it is (in my opinion) a bit harder to decipher than other ways, though (at least, the style used in their public code repositories); it's much too long, and looks more or less like BASIC with symbols nowadays.
When you internalize the parsing model, it's downright trivial to read pretty much anything in it or its dialects.
- clarry 7y ago> You can find a lot of talks on the normal video-sharing sites from people like Aaron Hsu and Roger Hui demonstrating this. If you have a good one in mind, please do recommend! Last night I watched this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKfJRyoiBlY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKfJRyoiBlY (found via r/apljk, posted by Kari himself IIRC) This one uses pretty simple constructs though, mostly ones I'm already familiar with. It (intentionally) avoided reading the more complicated expressions. (Also if there's another active online community around APL & similar langauges, I'd like to know about it)