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I enjoyed russ cox's advent of code series using rob pike's ivy (https://github.com/robpike/ivy https://github.com/robpike/ivy), an apl-like calculator https:/

• shadytrees 4y ago
  This is what got me and my friend into APL-likes. My friend even made an APL-like towards the end. I assert that APL is one of the main, definitional pillars of programming languages, the way Lisp and C and Prolog are. It is extraordinarily easy to build an APL with scalar and vector support -- once you start thinking about higher-dimensional data structures, though, it is the ergonomics and the design that become subtle and tricky. (Ivy, in particular, does some questionable things at with multi-dimensional matrices.) Also, if you think of APL operators as verbs, perhaps there should be adverbs that lift the verbs up into higher dimensions...