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Very fun story, thank you for sharing! Small question of clarification: > I took a professor’s 300 line APL program translated literally from BASIC, and wrote
by rattray 5y ago
Very fun story, thank you for sharing! Small question of clarification:
> I took a professor’s 300 line APL program translated literally from BASIC, and wrote a ten line program that was much faster.
The professor translated BASIC->APL, and you translated APL->more concise APL?
- Syzygies 5y agoYes [fixed]. And in an interpreted language, moving the work to a single operation was a big win.