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Is there a modern reincarnation of APL with similarly terse but clever syntax?

• _0ffh 5y ago
  A few. J, K and Q come to mind.
• mlochbaum 5y ago
  I'm working on a language called BQN which I think does just this. The design is done, and we are mainly working on performance and testing for the C implementation (it's also missing some syntax features, but they are all things that don't exist in APL and should be added soon). https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/ https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/
• rbonvall 5y ago
  There are many, all with awfully googleable names: j, k, q, etc.
  • narrator 5y ago
    That seems to me to be one of the hardest parts of APL getting adoption, besides it being extremely laborious to read. You can't Google anything.
    • avmich 5y ago
      Go to jsoftware.com - there are links and tons of stuff to read. You'll learn about more searchable terms.
• agbell 5y ago
  The guest of this episode is working on porting J to modern C++. Someone also shared this javascript implementation of APL: https://github.com/abrudz/ngn-apl#readme https://github.com/abrudz/ngn-apl#readme