Rampoina · HackerTrans

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

I don't understand how this is not the obvious answer. Maybe people are equating open source with an open development model?

Rampoina

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

https://flarerpg.org/

Rampoina

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

≤ "expands" in J to <: Definitely not more verbose.

J uses . and : as modifiers to a base operator to create a pretty big set of primitives. See https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/NuVoc

Rampoina

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

I should have used the full sentence. Why does it stop being "notation as a tool of thought" See comments like this one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20732924

Rampoina

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

> APLers hate the successors, because "notation is tool for thought" and ASCII is a poor representation.

I'm perplexed by this one. I'll concede that the APL symbols are prettier but why does it magically stop being a notation just because you use combinations of ASCII symbols. Especially when many APL symbols are composed of units themselves.

⍲ vs *: One is 'notation' because it has the two units stacked on top of each other and the other is not because they are stacked horizontally?

Rampoina

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

You can do that with a traditional notation music program like Musescore. You just need to learn music notation.

Rampoina

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

Pretty cool thanks, this one covers interactivity https://invidio.us/watch?v=CzK2SazvCxM (it's a little sprite editor)

Do you know if GNU APL offers the facilities to do stuff like that?

Rampoina

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

I would also like to know if there's examples of more real time applications in APL. Any GUI programming? Interactive simulations? etc.