Notation as a Tool of Thought (1980)

Re:Notation as a Tool of Thought (1980) by RodgerTheGreat on Monday September 07, 2015 @05:29PM (#10183150)

Getting paid to program in APL sounds pretty fun to me- It's a shame most of the jobs seem to be finance-based.

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Re:Notation as a Tool of Thought (1980) by alexcweiner on Monday September 07, 2015 @06:41PM (#10183357)

I suggest checking out GNU APL. There are relatively few libraries, so there is lots of room for contribution.

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Re:Notation as a Tool of Thought (1980) by brudgers on Monday September 07, 2015 @06:55PM (#10183398)

Iverson's later language, J, is also open source. It doesn't require a special keyboard, has top notch documentation and online support resources and is open source under GPL3. It might or might not be a better place to get started than APL depending on a person's goals.

http://www.jsoftware.com/stable.htm

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Re:Notation as a Tool of Thought (1980) by jsofteh on Monday September 07, 2015 @11:40PM (#10184032)

It's not really open source. Only the "core." The development environment is excluded.

(Looked into it recently and I was disappointed.)

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Re:Notation as a Tool of Thought (1980) by brudgers on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @08:52AM (#10185354)

Between the command line, scripts and Emacs the J IDE isn't really a big deal for me. Because J was a closed source commercial product and dates to the 1980's their may be copyright licensing issues tied into the code base. It's hard to release existing projects into open source.

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