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Can I ask, why has APL suddenly become the flavour of the month? This isn't a downer on the language, I'm just genuinely curious.
by DaedPsyker 5y ago
Can I ask, why has APL suddenly become the flavour of the month? This isn't a downer on the language, I'm just genuinely curious.
- mlochbaum 5y agoIt happens like once a year, it's not that sudden. That said, Learning APL looks like an outstanding resource when other introductions to Dyalog are outdated, incomplete, or just low-quality, so I think it deserves to be highlighted even if everyone's otherwise tired of hearing about APL.
- porker 5y agoThe Array Language podcast which started a couple of months ago and was featured on HN has helped.
- Banana699 5y agoAPL, forth and prolog are routinely rediscovered over and over again. They are like a cat standing in the path of a door : refusing the mainstream and refusing obscurity. Maybe lisp was in that club too but clojure made it mainstream again, by my horribly inaccurate, unscientific and probably wrong reckoning.
- vanderZwan 5y agoClojure is in a kind of "niche mainstream" position. The others are "just" niche, I guess
- rbanffy 5y agoI love how Forth taught me to build the language up instead if the program down.
- de_Selby 5y agoThat's something I like about array languages too, and Lisp is similar from what I know of it. Essentially defining a DSL for the problem and then working with it.
- Zababa 5y agoI've been reading hacker news for around two years and it's one of the recurrent topics I think. It comes in waves so we may be in a peak of some sorts, but I think it'll always come and go.