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I don’t imagine such a language would be well liked by the APL/J/K purists (“You’re missing the point!”)

Meh. I'm not interested in code golf. I find it mostly disappointing that discussions of APL and its descendants rarely include anything of substance about the array programming model. Everyone argues about whether the constant-factor size change from glyphs/words is worth it, but what I actually find interesting is the flexible code reuse you get from having every function automatically work on arbitrarily large data.




Exactly, I think the semantics & interactive mode of programming have a lot of value, and it’s a shame they seem to get less attention than they deserve just because the notation is inscrutable to newcomers.




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