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Re:Free Pascal compiler now supports dynamic packages on Sunday October 18, 2026 @03:52PM (#50144749)
Good Thanks.
"loi Évin", from 1991, do not allow people to smoke in transportation. I used to travel air France and air Inter plane from 1990 to 2000. I never see anybody smoking in a plane.
Re:kharp – k version 3 Language Interpreter in C# on Monday May 18, 2026 @07:41AM (#48178275)
Great. But you have to simplify the sources.
Re:Zoo of Array Languages on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @08:52AM (#45579440)
R is also an array language, but a non-iversonian one. Another good ressource for array languages is https://aplwiki.com/.

r/apljk on reddit is also active.

Re:Why did not numpy copy the J rank concept? on Saturday July 05, 2025 @09:33AM (#44472701)
Maybe the internal broadcasting mecanism in numpy don't allow this nativelly ?
Re:That XOR Trick (2020) on Thursday July 03, 2025 @09:12PM (#44460375)
the top comment trick [ n, 1, n + 1, 0 ][n % 4] can be implemented in J as following :

   f =: ]`1:`>:`0:@.(4&|)"0
Then:

   (,. ; #: ; [: #: f) i.16

 0    0 0 0 0    0 0 0 0    
 1    0 0 0 1    0 0 0 1    
 2    0 0 1 0    0 0 1 1    
 3    0 0 1 1    0 0 0 0    
 4    0 1 0 0    0 1 0 0    
 5    0 1 0 1    0 0 0 1    
 6    0 1 1 0    0 1 1 1    
 7    0 1 1 1    0 0 0 0    
 8    1 0 0 0    1 0 0 0    
 9    1 0 0 1    0 0 0 1    
....
Re:I Don't Like NumPy on Friday May 16, 2025 @09:02AM (#44004977)
Array programming requires true array languages like apl and j.
Re:Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979) on Saturday May 03, 2025 @11:51AM (#43879860)
It's free and allow use of standard ASCII characters
Re:Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979) on Saturday May 03, 2025 @11:50AM (#43879857)
J is free. k is closed Source,and cost a life.
Re:Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979) on Friday April 25, 2025 @11:38AM (#43794749)
J has revolutionized the way I think. I can confirm it: ever since I learned to program with it, I’ve been able to solve so many problems that previously felt far beyond my (limited) intellectual reach. For me, J (and by extension, the APL family more broadly) has contributed as much to my thinking as the methodologies I learned during my university studies in philosophy. Suffice it to say, it has profoundly and positively shaken me.
Re:DOGE Worker’s Code Supports NLRB Whistleblower on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @09:01PM (#43778345)
Maybe not everyone involved is quite the genius you might've been expecting.
Re:What about K? on Monday February 10, 2025 @02:48PM (#43004399)
Maybe codfns for apl will solve this ? That's what I understood.. but maybe I'm wrong.
Re:Some identities in J (array language) on Thursday February 06, 2025 @06:00AM (#42961185)
-: and :- are not the same... Maybe some typos... But your list shows how left and right terms are the same in each identities. Look like some pedagogical stuff.

For instance :

(],[) -: ([,])~

(],[) Appends right and left term while ([,])~ append left and right term after arguments order inversion.

Re:History of APL in the USSR (1991) on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @10:29AM (#42933586)
Wow it's very interresting. I published it on reddit.com/r/arraylanguages thanks a lot!
Good. I put it on reddit.com/r/arraylanguages
Re:Has LLM killed traditional NLP? on Sunday January 19, 2025 @09:58AM (#42757550)
They all fall into the pitfall that Martin Heidegger suggested avoiding, particularly in the introduction of his text What Is a Thing?.
Re:Make a "Magic Eye" image using Excel on Monday December 09, 2024 @10:28AM (#42367072)
You mean that all theses stuff on my screen are also physical beings? Lol. And while we are it, women and Real World exist ?
Re:KlongPy: High-Performance Array Programming in Python on Monday December 02, 2024 @10:51AM (#42297346)
No. In APL deriverd array programming languages, verbs (or functions) are monadic or dyadic : they accept only one or two arguments :

In '1 + 1', + is a dyadic operator, while in 'exp 5', exp is monadic.

In J, and in APL I guess, left arg is usually understood as 'control data', while right arg is the data upon which calculation is done. Left argument is usually left unchanged after calculations.

In this way, is it possible to create multi-arguments verbs, by placing boxed args on the left of the verb.

Re:Steven Hawking's time traveller party on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @04:47PM (#41572556)
Better : people have to Guess on day 1 a random value generated on day 2, and the winner would be awarded with a Big amont of money. Privacy granted. Lottery. Lottery IS a Time traveller detection device.
Re:The Mouse Programming Language on CP/M on Monday September 02, 2024 @10:41PM (#41430751)
Both the 1979 and 1983, C and Pascal versions, compile fine and work as expected using last versions of respectively TCC and Lazarus on windows 10.

http://mouse.davidgsimpson.com/mouse83/mouse83_c.txt http://mouse.davidgsimpson.com/mouse83/mouse83_pas.txt

http://mouse.davidgsimpson.com/mouse79/mouse79_c.txt http://mouse.davidgsimpson.com/mouse79/mouse79_pas.txt

Re:Einstein's Other Theory of Everything on Sunday September 01, 2024 @11:02PM (#41422274)
"Gem test" 1 and 2 on john brandenburg 's youtube channel :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqbOnqZtz3Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSRbLA6dhtk

Re:Bit-Banging a Basic Birthday on Monday August 19, 2024 @01:01PM (#41292697)
A 50 years old man is indeed a classic piece of hardware.
Bécasse paté with tapeworms in France ??? I m french and never Heard of this. And I can't find anything in french about this on internet. I'm sceptical...
Re:APL Demonstration (1975) [video] on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @12:52PM (#40801974)
Fun fact : 'sornette' means 'poppycock' in french.
Maybe the clock with the myriads of hands rotations is view as a whole ? All the possibles states of this clock would be seen simultaneously ? But this clock is itself made up of many parts, which are in turn composed of atoms, subatomic particles, etc. The set of all possible states of the clock also includes the set of states occupied by the different parts of the clock (down to the subatomic level) over time, before and after the clock is made and then disintegrates. The clock is, in fact, just one state among many of the atoms that make it up. These atoms were scattered before being assembled into a clock, and they will be scattered again when the clock is destroyed. So, we are not really talking about a clock, but rather a set of atoms that may have occupied very different positions in the universe, and whose supposed unity exists only transiently when a human being looks at this clock. In a certain way, considering the clock as outside of time almost turns it into a non-being, or at least a diaphanous and ephemeral being, lost in a cloud of particles randomly distributed throughout the universe.
No. The diagram https://science.nasa.gov/resource/history-of-the-universe/ tells us that galaxies and dark matter formed 400M years after the big bang. Look at the right of the chart legend: "13.8 billion years" is above "today".
Re:New 9/11 Evidence Points to Deep Saudi Complicity on Monday May 27, 2024 @06:25PM (#40495350)
I disagree. Most of content on conspiracy forums and sites regarding 911 tell 1) that the attack was a US inside job 2) no plane really hit pentagon neither WTC, 3)if a foreign country is involved then it must be Israel. It is also what was said back then. As far as I remember,it was journalists and analysts who pointed Saudi Arabia.

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