[HN Gopher] Forgotten APL Influences (2016) [pdf]
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Forgotten APL Influences (2016) [pdf]
Author : secwang
Score : 70 points
Date : 2024-05-16 10:19 UTC (12 hours ago)
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| RodgerTheGreat wrote:
| APL was originally conceived as an improved notation for
| mathematics, unifying a variety of fields and concepts. This
| effort is sometimes portrayed as a failure for not being
| universally adopted wholesale, but some of its ideas did
| influence popular usage, including the adoption of APL's [?]
| (floor) and [?] (ceiling) symbols, as well as those names for the
| operations.
| vincent-manis wrote:
| Not to mention Scheme (and Scala and many other languages)
| primitives such as "take" and "drop" and even "iota". In
| addition, many of the achievements cited in this article flow
| from the fact that APL\360 was one of the first highly-
| interactive systems that were widely available.
| mxtbccagmailcom wrote:
| If you're interested in APL and array programming languages (j,
| k, q, BQN) take a listen to The Array Cast at
| https://www.arraycast.com/
| abrudz wrote:
| The paper's author speaks up in some episodes of the APL Campfire
| (https://apl.wiki/APL_Campfire):
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| - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1VMeSzJLyE&list=PLYKQVqyrAE...
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| - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jBQ53cRi0s&list=PLYKQVqyrAE...
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| - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a65K-0jaWc4&list=PLYKQVqyrAE...
| simonmic wrote:
| Fascinating, leads to so many informative rabbit holes. Thanks
| for sharing.
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