I just started playing with Dyalog APL after listening to the Array Cast. It’s mind bending stuff even after being familiar with Numpy and R. Makes most languag

I just started playing with Dyalog APL after listening to the Array Cast. It’s mind bending stuff even after being familiar with Numpy and R. Makes most languages look clunky and cluttered for array manipulation. And the idea that a language can be designed around one data structure is elegant. Of course you get that in Lisp and Smalltalk as well. But having all those primitives that work over array structures is incredibly expressive. I believe the array podcasters when they claim array languages can be several times more productive than other languages, at least for domains that fit well with arrays.