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Along vaguely related lines is https://gist.github.com/chrispsn/b1020918a83a28ab8b4442d8aff8d1b4 https://gist.github.com/chrispsn/b1020918a83a28ab8b4442d8aff...

• mlochbaum 5y ago
  The relationship is interesting. Chris is trying to find a minimal set of functions good enough to derive the rest (a worthwhile goal, and it mentions at the bottom that I did something similar in BQN). Part of my current thinking about primitives is that it's not important how many there are, more that each represents a coherent simple concept. But primitives that are too similar can cause problems for memory and maybe intuition.
  • moonchild 5y ago
    What is your opinion of the j. primitive in j?
    • mlochbaum 5y ago
      It makes complete sense and I'll add the same thing to BQN if it gets complex numbers (this is why ⍳ is on the keyboard, but other options could be better).