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"one line in your custom language" is not one line at all lol


To be fair K is a real language that's used by more than just him.

Why array languages seem to gravitate to symbol soup that makes regex blush I'll never know.


Yeah I think MATLAB and Mathematica are waaay more used than K et al. They just don't look insane so people aren't posting them on HN as much.


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Array language have been around far longer than any "HN crowd".


Which is totally orthogonal to the original statement, and my reflection to it, which was on one hand statig that seemingly array languages tend to be letter soupy, for which I replied that a selection bias is at play, as array languges are used widely, most notably Matlab is used widely which is not a letter soup. It is simply not regurgulated on the site as it does not seem so hardcore.

Nevertheless you are right, array langueges have been around earlier, for example Matlab itself dates back to the 1970s.

I do not understand the awe some are giving them in the comments, they are an easy to understand paradigm, which is very well suited for certain types of problems. Some having overly terse syntax is a thing, but I do not feel that only geniuses can comprehend array programming, anyone who did learn some university level physics or signal processing has the tools in their belt.




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