Post A4oY3iXZFi5lPinRgG by sajith@aana.site
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(DIR) Post #A4oU5eciO3MS1ns8dk by ashwinvis@mastodon.acc.sunet.se
2021-03-02T22:24:45Z
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When I heard the person who invented #APL got a Turing award, I had to read more. It is certainly innovative, not sure if it was really usable.How did "APLers" programmed it back then and today? Do they have some IDE / keyboard which produced all those symbols? And those symbols are not ASCII symbols either.
(DIR) Post #A4oWEnSB7suRvdQmnY by cryospheroid@scholar.social
2021-03-02T22:48:48Z
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@ashwinvis I don’t remember the details of how they did it, but I’ve seen some old keyboards that have APL symbols on them in addition to the usual QWERTY symbols. (I guess there was a hotkey to switch between them, or something like that?) I’ve never actually seen one in use, though, or used APL myself for that matter
(DIR) Post #A4oXzgMFQQUXUDZsKO by sajith@aana.site
2021-03-02T23:08:28Z
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@ashwinvis Yes, there are specially made keyboards for APL.Alternatively, Dyalog, a commercial APL vendor, have made APL fonts and key mappings available for download. Or you can use GNU APL with an Emacs mode. Or you can take up J or K languages. K is used to implement some financial products. APL etc certainly has some fans. 🙂 Iverson's paper, "Notation as a Tool of Thought", describes APL well. I don't really care for APL the language, but I think the idea is very powerful.
(DIR) Post #A4oY3iXZFi5lPinRgG by sajith@aana.site
2021-03-02T23:09:14Z
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@ashwinvis Yes, there are specially made keyboards for APL.Alternatively, Dyalog, a commercial APL vendor, have made APL fonts and key mappings available for download. Or you can use GNU APL with an Emacs mode. Or you can take up J or K languages. K is used to implement some financial products. APL certainly have some fans. 🙂 Iverson's paper, "Notation as a Tool of Thought", describes APL well. I don't really care for APL the language, but I think the idea is very powerful.
(DIR) Post #A4oZUWXG5vPhxCzwci by ashwinvis@mastodon.acc.sunet.se
2021-03-02T23:25:16Z
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@sajithYes it seems so. I get a similar feeling like how I see functional programming the idea and Haskell the language.
(DIR) Post #A4qV8NvrOCmfOsc4Z6 by VikingKong@distrotoot.com
2021-03-03T21:45:53Z
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@ashwinvisCheck out J language which is sort of a modern APL dialect using standard keyboard symbols.