AMA: Explaining my 750 line compiler+runtime designed to GPU self-host APL

Re:AMA: Explaining my 750 line compiler+runtime designed to ... by arcfide on Sunday March 05, 2017 @05:20PM (#13799146)

Remember that the FinnAPL library expects that you know your APL environment and are able to adapt the idioms to suit.

You should also consider "Notation as a Tool of Thought" by Kenneth Iverson (his Turing Award lecture) to be required reading.

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Re:AMA: Explaining my 750 line compiler+runtime designed to ... by jarpineh on Monday March 06, 2017 @05:09PM (#13806501)

I think it's this: http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm

I thought I had read it at some point, but now it doesn't ring a bell. Well, it's on the list now. It starts with Babbage quote and uses phrase "tool of thought" which coincides early computer history books I've been reading.

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Re:AMA: Explaining my 750 line compiler+runtime designed to ... by arcfide on Monday March 06, 2017 @06:01PM (#13806892)

Yes, that would be the one.

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