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by yiyus 7y ago
This is actually very standard syntax for array languages. Precedence rules may be uncommon, but extremely simple: right to left, that's all; and finding the meaning of each symbol just requires checking in a table. In your c-style exa
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by yiyus 7y ago
I get review requests from journals and it is my personal decision to accept them. My employer (university) does not even know if I review papers or not. I do not have any obligation or get any kind of compensation for doing them. This is n
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by yiyus 7y ago
Your text was fine! I understood what you mean. I have seen the specific box about grammar in some journals. But my field is not computer science or physics, so my experience may be quite different from most people here.
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It is not unusual (at least on some fields) seeing specific questions about grammar. It must be checked and maybe fixed, and in some extreme cases it can even imply rejection independently of content, but in most cases a revision is enough.
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You do not get paid to review papers.
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> The paper also is riddled with spelling and grammar mistakes, and while that doesn't have anything to do with the science, it does say something about the sloppiness of the researcher, I think. I have reviewed many papers that wer
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by yiyus 7y ago
What I would like to have (and looks quite similar to what you are describing) is some APL interpreter (or J or K...) with an RPN input method. The idea comes from HP calculators, where you use RPN to "build" algebraic expressions
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by yiyus 7y ago
May I ask where are you? I have been in many European universities and I always got free coffee (not food, but neither in private companies).
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https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/Dijkstra_Letter.htm
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You are smart enough. These articles (both this one and the longer "A history of APL in 50 functions") get posted here from time to time. They are showing off and include some examples of very clever code (which made perfect sense
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They may be depressing and frustrating, but I think they are necessary. They answer a "what-if" that most people learning Lisp will ask themselves at some point. Eg: I was never into the Lisp usage of parents until I saw some of t
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I have used p9p for years because I like the GUI (in different modern laptops, always without external mouse). Other people prefer huge IDEs, many people prefer vim or emacs, and I also known some extremely good programmers who just use not
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by yiyus 7y ago
If you have made the switch from Windows to Linux, you probably have got that feeling of satisfaction, of things working as expected. Maybe getting everything working was harder, but it felt right. That is the feeling you get when you switc
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> Speaking of cultural, the jargon of the language is didactic and annoying. All over the documentation references to monadic or niladic or diadic functions. Also calling things verbs or adverbs or nouns is annoying and unhelpful. That i
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by yiyus 7y ago
The J language makes trivial to solve this problem without a tetration operator: (^~^:_1)5 2.12937
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Some HP calculators do (at least above the 49G, I am not sure about the 48). The HP prime is based on Giac/Xcas.
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Planck's with two keys instead of the longer space are pretty common. The PCB gives you both options.
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For those cases, you just have a switch to another layer (a permanent switch like cap locks, not a modifier like shift).
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I have done something similar using a ramfs for the work directories. That way when you are finished you simply save what you want and delete it. Building is much faster than to disk. If your data does not fit in RAM, just use an image file
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It allows the programming, but not so much the thinking. For example, I recently had a discussion about 3d rotations in a python program. We tried writing some python in the blackboard, but it did not fly and we quickly switched to standard
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by yiyus 7y ago
J and K generally use symbols instead of words, but what you said still applies. I have seen very similar solutions that allow to represent J with APL symbols, and it surely looks much better. But these solutions are far from optimal. The c
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by yiyus 7y ago
A special keyboard can hardly compete with the convenience of any standard keyboard. My issue is not to write APL in a personal basis; there are many tools for that. My problem is that it is not the standard. J and K solved that using ASCII
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by yiyus 7y ago
Personally, I wish the APL ideas had been taken more seriously, not only as a programming language, but specially as an algebraic notation. I would like to be able to open any text editor and write formulas, and it is not a minor thing to b
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by yiyus 7y ago
But humans did not evolve to rise at 6 a.m. What you propose would create way more problems than it solves.
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No, please, no. I already need my phone for way too many things. I do not know what system is better to deal with summer times, but I hope it's one that can work with simple clocks.
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I think it would indeed be less practical, but also more honest. The sun rises earlier during the summer, and we actually start doing things earlier. The DST system is just hiding this so we do not need to change any schedules, at the expen
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Imagine a world in which everybody does everything earlier during the summer, including buses, and we were discussing the convenience of having DST: "but if we move forward the time, the buses will start running before people go to wor
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The proper solution to which problem?
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Thank you! I was actually looking for something specific about parse trees vs S-expressions. That would be https://github.com/c3d/xl/blob/master/doc/HANDBOOK_1-syntax.... But I'm reading the wh
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There are languages like Go intended to write large systems by large teams and languages like Forth that are better suited for small software written by a single programmer. There's no need to choose between Zig and LX. Use the one tha

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