Re:K, by Arthur Whitney (2005)
by beagle3 on Saturday January 18, 2014 @01:34PM
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Compared to how different k/j/apl are from mainstream programming languages, c/c++/c#/java/pascal are all dialects of the same language.
You have to think differently when using them - an exercise well worth the effort. Much like Lisp, if you grok them, your code in any language will be much better.
And they are not new - APL goes back to the 1950's. K is the refined-for-practicality version, J is the refined-for-purity-and-mathematical-beauty version (but it IS practical; in fact, it drops APL's special graphic symbols which made APL more beautiful but less useful)
You have to think differently when using them - an exercise well worth the effort. Much like Lisp, if you grok them, your code in any language will be much better.
And they are not new - APL goes back to the 1950's. K is the refined-for-practicality version, J is the refined-for-purity-and-mathematical-beauty version (but it IS practical; in fact, it drops APL's special graphic symbols which made APL more beautiful but less useful)