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Re:Conway's Game Of Life in one line of APL by iamwil on Saturday January 09, 2010 @10:37AM (#1041548)
That was my first time seeing APL code. All I knew about it was that it had its very own keyboard for its own funky symbols.
Re:Conway's Game Of Life in one line of APL by profquail on Saturday January 09, 2010 @10:56AM (#1041566)
I've been reading a bit about APL, and I can't find anywhere to buy one of the old APL keyboards. However, you can remap your existing keyboard to output APL symbols for certain key combinations, which is how I think most people are using it these days.

EDIT: Picture of the keyboard layout: http://www.users.on.net/~farnik/upload/APL2union.gif

Re:Conway's Game Of Life in one line of APL by shaunxcode on Saturday January 09, 2010 @01:24PM (#1041740)
Actually you can purchase one here: http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/adcolkey.html they even provide different colors and special keys (windows key into a meta key etc.) - I have the dark grey one and I love it.

You can also get APL stickers that fit onto any keyboard (I put them onto an hp 1000 laptop even) from here: http://hooleon.com/miva/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product... for about 15 dollars. They actually work really well - I would advise using a pair of tweezers to get them positioned exactly how you want because one they are on they are pretty permanent!

Re:Conway's Game Of Life in one line of APL by sunkencity on Saturday January 09, 2010 @02:15PM (#1041824)
Wow! Now that looks like a keyboard map for some serious dark programming magic! Now I really want to put on my pointy hat and enter the astral planes of APL!
Re:Conway's Game Of Life in one line of APL by coliveira on Saturday January 09, 2010 @11:08AM (#1041577)
You can also use J (http://www.jsoftware.com/), which follows the same philosophy but uses only normal characters (all of them, in fact).
Re:Conway's Game Of Life in one line of APL by michael_dorfman on Saturday January 09, 2010 @11:09AM (#1041578)
Most people are using virtual keyboards, but Dyalog (in the warning on their website) mention that they sell APL keyboards.
Re:Conway's Game Of Life in one line of APL by afshin on Saturday January 09, 2010 @08:32PM (#1042407)
J and K both came out of APL ... except they use the normal ASCII character set for their built-in functions. It still seems like magic to me when I saw one line of K execute really quickly and return what takes me dozens of lines of code in another language. Look at the APL/J/K solutions on some of the Project Euler problems. The longest ones are maybe two lines long.