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Re:A Source Book in APL (1981) by gtani on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @12:47AM (#14145490)
I ran it on a cluster of 5 of the largest mainframes available at the time, so i don't know what it'll be like stability and footprint-wise on linux/12G memory. I liked the language but i see what people are doing in R, python, julia especially, and numeric libraries in clojure, go, scala, rust, etc they're pretty impressive. One frequent limitation is not too many langaugea have complete wrappers for either of the 2 API's that CUDA exposes, which is pretty important in deep learning.

so if there are tangible advantages to APL today, it's not that obvious.

Re:A Source Book in APL (1981) by alexcweiner on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @09:42AM (#14147615)
This lets you access CUDA with APL

https://github.com/arcfide/Co-dfns