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What does ⍋⍋ even mean? (2023)
- cocodill 7mo agoAren't those the Twin Pines from Back to the Future?
- Qem 7mo agoAppears like the twin pines cooperativism symbol.
- magicalhippo 7mo agoI see weird symbols like that I think APL. I haven't touched APL but I know weird symbols when I see it. And checking the article... Tags: apl
- semiquaver 7mo agoWhat does [APL] even mean?
- zem 7mo ago"a programming language".
- philipov 7mo agoNot to be confused with b programming language, which is not its succesor, but is the predecessor to c.
- dbt00 7mo agoan obscure but very powerful matrix-centered programming language usually considered to be "write only", as in impossible to read what someone else wrote.
- jonahx 7mo ago> usually considered to be "write only" Only by the ignorant and uninitiated.
- mikelitoris 7mo agoI’m sure you’re fun to work with
- bossyTeacher 7mo ago> as in impossible to read what someone else wrote. Can you even read what you wrote several years ago?
- dylan604 7mo agoWait, isn't that what they say about perl?
- philipov 7mo agoYes, perl is considered write-only because it is a mess of features that allow unhygienic programming habits to flourish - it is full of hard-to-trace magical behavior. Completely different than APL, which has had perl's write-only label applied to it by programmers not used to reading terse mathematical notation.