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Re:What is a primitive? by smitty1e on Friday August 06, 2021 @04:54AM (#28084753)
Is BQN a near-incrementing of the letters in APL?

Is it pronounced "bacon"?

Re:What is a primitive? by mlochbaum on Friday August 06, 2021 @07:19AM (#28085612)
Yes, as you can verify pretty easily in BQN: https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/try.html#code=IkJRTiItIkFQTC.... I explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24172488.

Like APL versus "apple", the normal pronunciation is to spell it out B-Q-N, but it may be pronounced "bacon" if one wishes to establish a double-entendre. So a BQN user is a BQNator, pronounced like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baconator.