What does ⍋⍋ even mean? (2023)

https://blog.wilsonb.com/posts/2023-08-04-what-does-grade-grade-even-mean.html

by tosh • 4 months ago

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cocodill• 4 months ago

Aren't those the Twin Pines from Back to the Future?

stirfish• 4 months ago

Did you mean the Lone Pine?

cheschire• 4 months ago

You space bastard! You killed my pine!

arto• 4 months ago

My very first thought as well.

Qem• 4 months ago

Appears like the twin pines cooperativism symbol.

magicalhippo• 4 months ago

I see weird symbols like that I think APL. I haven't touched APL but I know weird symbols when I see it.

And checking the article... Tags: apl

semiquaver• 4 months ago

What does [APL] even mean?

zem• 4 months ago

"a programming language".

philipov2• 4 months ago

Not to be confused with b programming language, which is not its succesor, but is the predecessor to c.

dbt00• 4 months ago

an obscure but very powerful matrix-centered programming language usually considered to be "write only", as in impossible to read what someone else wrote.

jonahx2• 4 months ago

usually considered to be "write only"

Only by the ignorant and uninitiated.

bossyTeacher• 4 months ago

as in impossible to read what someone else wrote.

Can you even read what you wrote several years ago?

groby_b• 4 months ago

Very much not.

Its origin is as a mathematical notation for algorithms. It was used to publish research reports and (IIRC) a book or two.

You're confusing "possible to read" with "accessible to people unwilling to invest any effort understanding"

kcroarkin• 3 months ago

Find the "write only" comments you commonly see online to be untrue. I have been writing a voxel game in majority APL code for the past 6 months. I have been able to read my own code and refactor stuff I've written months ago fine while also integrating code from other APL codebases and suggestions from other people. It just has a higher learning curve to understand.

What does ⍋⍋ even mean? (2023)

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