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Re:How much can a Clojure developer do alone? by dTal on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @05:24PM (#26640742)
Not really; a direct descendent of APL is very widely used, and it's called Numpy. It's just that array-orientation, while great (especially for numerics), is insufficiently general to comfortably express arbitrary algorithms. You can write "APL" in many modern languages, but people still prefer to use traditional control flow for many purposes; hell, even APL provides this "escape hatch" (though it looks bolted-on).
Re:How much can a Clojure developer do alone? by jolux on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @05:49PM (#26641014)
Numpy is definitely not as powerful (read: concise) as APL, and you really can’t write “APL” in most modern languages. The operators are rank-polymorphic, for one.