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APL was not designed to protect some fiefdom. It was just the notation they used on the blackboard during lectures and for that purpose it's fine. Then someone
by 3836293648 3y ago
APL was not designed to protect some fiefdom. It was just the notation they used on the blackboard during lectures and for that purpose it's fine. Then someone implemented it.
And later array languages have mostly abandonned the crazy names in favour of actual words, at least as far as I've seen
- gpderetta 3y ago> And later array languages have mostly abandonned the crazy names in favour of actual words Sharing this without comments: https://github.com/KxSystems/kdb/blob/master/c/c/k.h https://github.com/KxSystems/kdb/blob/master/c/c/k.h
- yakubin 3y agoI love the “remove more clutter” comment. :D