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Ha! The guy who wrote this is the same guy who invented ~~APL~~ a number of APL inspired languages (Edit: He did not invent APL. Thanks for the corrections!), s
by itishappy 3y ago
Ha! The guy who wrote this is the same guy who invented ~~APL~~ a number of APL inspired languages (Edit: He did not invent APL. Thanks for the corrections!), so I suspect he may just be built different.
https://www.jsoftware.com/ioj/iojATW.htm https://www.jsoftware.com/ioj/iojATW.htm
Have you seen anything written in K itself? Here's a program to calculate primes:
2_&{&/x!/:2_!x}'!R
- microtherion 3y agoAPL was invented by Kenneth Iverson, the other person mentioned on the page, not Arthur Whitney. I was not convinced of the readability of APL, but compared to its successors which tried to stick to ASCII, I've learned to appreciate the merits of an extended character set.
- jhbadger 3y agoI'm sure ATW knows a lot of APL, but APL itself was created by Ken Iverson when ATW was just a small child. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_E._Iverson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_E._Iverson
- anthk 3y agoA program written in Unix dc(1) would look as weird as that.