Inspired by Ken Iverson’s paper “Notation as a Tool of Thought”, this podcast explores various aspects of notation, in the context of the APL programming language.
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Inspired by Ken Iverson’s paper “Notation as a Tool of Thought”, this podcast explores various aspects of notation, in the context of the APL programming language.
We continue discussing the pros and cons of adding primitives, and go through a few more that could be useful to have.
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FinnAPL spring meeting
Tokyo APL/J/K Meetup
APL Array Notation Formal Proposal
Strand notation
Select primitive
Depth primitive
Reverse Compose primitive
Array Cast
German names for things
Formalism in Programming Languages
Matrix Division
Matrix Inversion
Bracket indexing
Squad indexing
Adám’s talk from Dyalog ‘22
Caret (∧)
Caron (∨)
Chevron
Array notation
Kronecker product
Join primitive
Right Shoe
Dyalog Extended
Dyalog Vision
The APL Show podcast
Inspired by Ken Iverson’s paper “Notation as a Tool of Thought”, this podcast explores various aspects of notation, in the context of the APL programming language.