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Re:APL Interpreter – An implementation of APL, written in Ha... by ofalkaed on Friday June 06, 2025 @03:50AM (#44198684)
>IMHO, the biggest pain point of APL pedagogy at the moment

It is the one that always trips me up. I just started in on my third attempt at learning APL/array languages, both previous times I got to the same point where I was mostly at a loss of how to apply it all. So I move on and forget all that I learned until the next time and have to start over. Thankfully the last attempt seems to have mostly stuck as far as keyboard layout goes, makes progress much quicker.

I may take you up on that email offer once I get a bit further along in this current attempt, can't quite form reasonable questions yet and only know what tripped me up in the previous attempts. I believe you are a regular on APL Orchard? I will be joining it soon so perhaps will see you there.

Re:APL Interpreter – An implementation of APL, written in Ha... by xelxebar on Friday June 06, 2025 @12:05PM (#44202230)
Yes, I'm one of the few regularly in the Orchard. There's also the APL Farm discord, which is chattier.

In the off chance you've not see this: https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Chat_rooms_and_forums