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Re:A deep dive into APL by adrianratnapala on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @08:09AM (#13975864)
Hmm, I don't know APL or R, but I suspect I could have substituted "Numerical Python" for "MATLAB" for "R" in your post and have left the meaning almost unchanged.

Is my suspicion correct?

BTW: A mere 20 lines for format conversion is very good. Although by APL standards, it might be terrible.

Re:A deep dive into APL by lokedhs on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @10:20AM (#13976746)
Very likely. I used R as an example since it conceptually is very similar to R in the way it treats arrays, and also since it's not something you'd use to build full applications.