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I am aware of J & K; but neither are open source.
I'm also aware of A+, but that seems outdated.
Is there any decent open source implementation of APL?
If so, where; is not, why?
Thanks!
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When I was at University 30 years ago, I used a programming language called APL. I believe the acronym stood for "A Programming Language",
This language was interpretive and was especially useful for array and matrix operations with powerful operators and library functions to help with that.
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I'm writing code in C++, but I really like K/APL's array-oriented style.
Does anyone know of a good set of operator overloading tricks / macros / ... to allow some K/APL -style programming in C++?
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I am aware of J & K; but neither are open source.
I'm also aware of A+, but that seems outdated.
Is there any decent open source implementation of APL?
If so, where; is not, why?
Thanks!
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I came across J/K/APL a few months ago while working my way through some project euler problems, and was intrigued, to say the least. For every elegant-looking 20 line python solution I produced, there'd be a gobsmacking 20 character J solution that ran in a tenth of the time. I've been keen to learn…
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we had a discussion about this language at work... Who works with that today?
Don't we normally favor readability over smallest number of lines?
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