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Seven Obscure Languages in Seven Weeks
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Seven Obscure Languages in Seven Weeks

by Dmitry Zinoviev
October 2024
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
6h 54m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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The universe is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures.

Galileo Galilei, Florentine astronomer, physicist, and engineer

Chapter 3Embracing Array-Centric Programming with APL

When it comes to massively parallel processing of multidimensional arrays—vectors, matrices, datacubes, and so on—nothing seems to beat NumPy, a numerical Python library (hence the name), and Matlab, the Matrix Laboratory (hence the name). However, this wasn’t always the case. The first array processing language, APL, was designed much earlier.

The original version of APL dates back to 1962 when Kenneth Iverson, a Canadian computer scientist, introduced it as a form of algebraic and algorithmic ...

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