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So I guess Perl is a gateway drug for the APL family of languages now?

• riffraff 2y ago
  yes, and the post didn't even touch on metaoperators e.g. # use the reduce metaoperator [ ] with infix + to do "sum all" [+] 1, 2, 3
  • b2gills 2y ago
    That's nothing, use it to calculate the sum of range of values say [+] 1..10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Which will result in you getting this back in a fraction of a second 50000000000000000000000000000000000000000005000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 (It actually cheats because that particular operator gets substituted for `sum` which knows how to calculate the sum of a Range object.)