A deep dive into APL

Re:A deep dive into APL by pmoriarty on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @12:24PM (#13977980)

Lisp was also far ahead of its time, but many Lisp features like garbage collection and lambdas have made it in to mainstream programming languages. Has anything similar happened with APL?

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Re:A deep dive into APL by muraiki on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @02:59PM (#13979552)

An article[1] claims Wes McKinney was inspired by APL while working on pandas; some of the pandas verbs such as "ravel" come from APL.

Also, the <- instead of = in R comes from APL, although that's relatively minor. :)

[1] https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2013/07/28/ruins-of-forgo...

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Re:A deep dive into APL by rebootthesystem on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @03:32AM (#13984147)

Interestingly enough, I was working with APL, Lisp, Forth and C pretty much simultaneously during my ten year or so sting using APL professionally.

This was an amazing combination of languages to have in my toolbox simultaneously. The mental calisthenics alone were truly enjoyable to me.

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Re:A deep dive into APL by baldfat on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @02:55PM (#13979523)

I just think of Lisp as its own world. They had to build Lisp machines to work on machines in years past. Today we still see growth in Lisp and seeing how Racket is developing and Clojure shows that Lisp has room to continue to innovate.

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