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Re:APL deserves its Renaissance too by seanmcdirmid on Thursday November 17, 2022 @09:16AM (#33639149)
APL could serve the niche as a write only language. Not for code to be maintained, but for one offs. Of course, those one offs inevitably become code to be maintained, so maybe this niche doesn’t really exist.
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Re:APL deserves its Renaissance too by generalizations on Thursday November 17, 2022 @09:39AM (#33639446)
It would also be a phenomenal spreadsheet language. the terseness means we get more visible code per cell block, the default data types mesh well, and the numerical orientation of the language is ideal.
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Re:APL deserves its Renaissance too by forrestthewoods on Thursday November 17, 2022 @09:41AM (#33639470)
We already have regex for unmaintainable, read-only code.
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Re:APL deserves its Renaissance too by seanmcdirmid on Thursday November 17, 2022 @04:00PM (#33645613)
regex isn't a programming language, it is a language for describing strings that can be recognized by finite automata.
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