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APL was created a long time ago and still we aren't using array languages. It's not like we haven't come up with great ideas (statically typed FP and array lang
by smabie 6y ago
APL was created a long time ago and still we aren't using array languages. It's not like we haven't come up with great ideas (statically typed FP and array languages), it's just that the industry is too pathetic to actually capitalize of them.
- yvdriess 6y agoAPL is well alive in Numpy and R, good ideas typically get diffused even to industry. However, it only adopts what fits in the existing systems. Good ideas that cannot be adopted incrementally tend to not diffuse well (e.g. dataflow parallel programming).