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Re:APL deserves its renaissance too by bstamour on Monday May 28, 2018 @03:10PM (#17174176)
Have you looked at Perl 6? It's optionally typed, and can be nearly as terse as apl with some of it's higher order operators.
Re:APL deserves its renaissance too by FractalLP on Monday May 28, 2018 @03:59PM (#17174482)
You'd have to essentially embed a slow unoptimized APL in it which you can do. Add that to the fact that P6 is already slow at the moment would be an issue. Also, unlike APL, your P6 APL operators would probably be only known to you.

It would definitely work though.

Re:APL deserves its renaissance too by b2gills on Monday May 28, 2018 @08:48PM (#17175649)
Unicode has APL characters, so create the operators using them.

If there is a conflict with an existing feature you could always create a Slang. A Slang is a module that changes the parser. (It could be argued that with this feature all programming languages are a subset of Perl 6)

Re:APL deserves its renaissance too by FractalLP on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @07:00AM (#17177997)
I've heard that quote, but realistically, that would be a huge project to write an efficient APL in P6 and as I already said, the performance wouldn't make you happy.