tern12 hours ago
Thank you! I'm writing an APL-lineage language right now (really, APL+Prolog+Lustre "lineage") and hadn't come across this paper.
I found an HTML version here: https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/J1990.htm
rnxrx11 hours ago
I love it when APL threads pop up here - really a novel approach to making computers do useful things. The videos from 1975 demonstrating it seem decades ahead of their time. I'm surprised APL hasn't had more of a resurgence given the recent ascendancy of data science.
veqq11 hours ago
APL is booming. There are a fair amount of new jobs onboarding non-APLers. Offshoots like BQN and Uiua have nice communities too.
adregan10 hours ago
Where are these jobs that onboard non-APLers? Asking for a friend ;)
rnxrx11 hours ago
Awesome! I'll be sure to check them out.
geeunits11 hours ago
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zahlman12 hours ago
Add `?download=true` to the link to view the PDF in your own reader software. (Although that probably doesn't bypass the Cloudflare check.)
jolmg12 hours ago
One can also click the download button top-right
OhMeadhbh2 hours ago
the button didn't work for me. oh wait. click the link, let it set the cookie, then reload.
quad622469 hours ago
canonical, nicely formatted and htmlized, version of this paper is https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/J1990.htm, and as should be obvious from url it is simply the first public release of j language; compare language summary with the current vocabulary https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/NuVoc