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Re:J can look like APL or English by curiousgal on Sunday August 18, 2019 @05:14AM (#20729144)
There is something so charming about the attached video [0]. It's very reminiscent of the original APL demonstration [1] from 1975. I love it!

0.https://youtube.com/watch?v=jTeENcpUZdM

1.https://youtube.com/watch?v=_DTpQ4Kk2wA

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Re:J can look like APL or English by paliilap on Sunday August 18, 2019 @05:29AM (#20729199)
That 1975 APL demonstration is lovely. Much has been preserved in Dyalog and GNU APL - it's very interesting to see how timeless the core APL functions are.

I'm very fond of a number of videos by the late John Scholes narrating APL solutions step by step, including the well-known demonstration of Conway's Game of Life in APL (0). His videos on depth-first search (1) and solving sudoku (2) are also brilliant.

(0) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4 (1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsZdfnlh_d0 (2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmT80OseAGs

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