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What were your use cases for APL ? I love it to bits on principles but never used it seriously, despite all the efforts of dyalog and Aaron Hsu. niche language
by agumonkey 4y ago
What were your use cases for APL ? I love it to bits on principles but never used it seriously, despite all the efforts of dyalog and Aaron Hsu.
niche languages have a flavour that mainstream spoils with feverish fads.. I always like to read perl or TCL forums and am surprised by the ideas and productions.
- seanmcdirmid 4y agoAPL is a great language for on the fly number crunching, which is pretty niche like writing with shorthand as a stenographer.
- actionfromafar 4y agoFinance/quant people sometimes use J which is some kind of APL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(programming_language) Edit: also K something something: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kx_Systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kx_Systems