I got the J language working on OpenBSD

Re:I got the J language working on OpenBSD by lvass on Sunday September 12, 2021 @05:00PM (#28504875)

I'd recommend APL2 and the GNU APL implementation instead. The reasoning is you can follow through the excellent Ken Iverson Turing Award paper [0], and, while using non-ascii is a small upfront cost, it IMO makes array languages much more readable.

[0]Notation as a tool of thought, https://doi.org/10.1145/1283920.1283935

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Re:I got the J language working on OpenBSD by rak1507 on Sunday September 12, 2021 @05:15PM (#28505030)

I would recommend Dyalog APL over GNU APL, it is much more modern.

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Re:I got the J language working on OpenBSD by lvass on Sunday September 12, 2021 @05:30PM (#28505176)

That's proprietary. And modern isn't an advantage in itself, unlike open-source for someone requesting open-source.

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Re:I got the J language working on OpenBSD by rak1507 on Sunday September 12, 2021 @05:37PM (#28505241)

I know it's proprietary, it isn't my language of choice, but it's a lot better than GNU APL.

If they really want something open source and good, J, open source ks, or BQN will be better. But if you're suggesting an APL dialect, Dyalog is much better than GNU despite being proprietary.

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