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A comment on K, by Arthur Whitney (2005).

Re:K, by Arthur Whitney (2005) by rtpg on Saturday January 18, 2014 @11:37AM (#7081330)
I have a really hard time understanding what APL-likes are useful for. I guess I don't do a lot of stuff with big vectors, but I feel like it would be hard to structure code (maybe you don't need to?)
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Re:K, by Arthur Whitney (2005) by beagle3 on Saturday January 18, 2014 @01:28PM (#7081695)
Well, it is very different - but if you have for loops anywhere, then K is probably useful for what you do. It's like reading/wriing Japanese kanji for an English speaker - it looks foreign, but it is equally capable and much terser.
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