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by chrispsn 8y ago
Worth noting that in the Excel world (a primitive array language), for business users, dense formulas without spaces or new lines are the norm (although it is possible to use those features). Syntax highlighting and step-by-step evaluation
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Arthur Whitney's 'B' Language(kparc.com)
151 points by chrispsn 8y ago|107 comments
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by chrispsn 8y ago
Perhaps the performance difference is due to resource limitations in the Shakti trial?
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by chrispsn 8y ago
According to this thread, it makes IPC harder: https://www.reddit.com/r/apljk/comments/82vcs4/comment/dyxb0...
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by chrispsn 8y ago
I've played around with the Python integration - it's pretty smooth. See, eg, https://groups.google.com/d/msg/shaktidb/lQ3XSvFPDhw/DOlmmFg...
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by chrispsn 8y ago
K7 is now available as a trial from Shakti Software, Arthur Whitney’s new company. https://anaconda.org/shaktidb There is a Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/shaktidb
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K7 Tutorial(cs.nyu.edu)
198 points by chrispsn 8y ago|83 comments
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Shakti releases trial of k7 language(anaconda.org)
1 points by chrispsn 8y ago|0 comments
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by chrispsn 8y ago
Everything I've found so far (very little): https://www.reddit.com/r/apljk/comments/ar18lv/comment/egm8x...
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Arthur Whitney, K inventor, starts new company(shakti.com)
3 points by chrispsn 8y ago|1 comments
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APL\iv: an APL interpreter and stream processor written in Go(github.com)
143 points by chrispsn 8y ago|27 comments
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by chrispsn 8y ago
Good news! IE11 will be supported until at least 2025 :D
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by chrispsn 8y ago
Thanks! Yeah, marketing has been limited as I want to improve the error experience first. To be honest, mobile is not a focus as I think it's hard to be productive without a proper keyboard. I'd like to make the iPad + kb experien
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by chrispsn 8y ago
It's true, not being part of Excel adds some friction. Thankfully IE11 has Office interop via COM, so Mesh (or a site embedding Mesh) can talk to existing spreadsheet investments. And on the locked-down front, Mesh doesn't require
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by chrispsn 8y ago
This is awesome (let expressions in formulas!!), but Mesh Spreadsheets has offered most of this for a couple of years, and in a free, open-source form. Specifically: - arrays and objects living in a cell - mix of spreadsheet and textual vie
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by chrispsn 8y ago
If you need "export to JS" in a similar app, you might like Mesh Spreadsheets: http://www.mesh-spreadsheet.com Slow functions and trees/graphs are currently a problem with Mesh as well, but timeouts may take care
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by chrispsn 8y ago
Mesh? www.mesh-spreadsheet.com. Toggle name visibility for a cell with the F3 key.
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by chrispsn 8y ago
You're going to love this: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Excel-Blog/Preview-of... But you'll probably also love Mesh Spreadsheets: http://chrispsn.com/mesh-preview.html http:&#
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by chrispsn 8y ago
More detail from the official source: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Excel-Blog/Preview-of...
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Excel gets functions for sorting, filtering, unique values(mrexcel.com)
3 points by chrispsn 8y ago|1 comments
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Jop: process Ruby arrays with J symbols(github.com)
1 points by chrispsn 8y ago|0 comments
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Benefits of 2D code layouts (2018)(twitter.com)
2 points by chrispsn 9y ago|0 comments
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by chrispsn 9y ago
The original has more recent commits: https://github.com/ngn/apl
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by chrispsn 9y ago
It's understandable why Microsoft would be slow-moving to incorporate new languages into Excel; what is popular now could change (eg if you add Python, do you also do R?), and restricting the number of languages available means people
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Script Lab – use JavaScript with Excel(github.com)
3 points by chrispsn 9y ago|0 comments
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by chrispsn 9y ago
Power Query, aka Get & Transform (built into Excel 2016), is probably the best new feature since Excel Tables were introduced in v2007. It lets you pull data from local, network and web sources - including databases - with a relatively
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by chrispsn 9y ago
Well, programs are data and logic - so this is definitely a way to write and visualise data more easily, and potentially also a way to visualise logic tables more easily (such as cases of 'switch' statements, although that display
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by chrispsn 9y ago
Thanks - not sure whether to call it an 'IDE' or a 'spreadsheet', people seem to have concerns about both terms. On whether it feels like a 'spreadsheet' - is it just the absence of location-based referencing,
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by chrispsn 9y ago
Right now you could share a Mesh file as code , but yes, you'd need to have a way of consuming that code. Right now there's no way of communicating the UI interface; I had envisaged that people would download Mesh separately from
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by chrispsn 9y ago
Cheers - forgot to add that when I first submitted. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14821186

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