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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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Looking at Data Types

Numbers can be integer and real, positive and negative, and here’s the catch: APL strongly promotes the one-to-one correspondence between a symbol and its function. In most programming languages, the minus is used as a constituent of a negative literal expression (-5 is a negative 5) or a unary negation function (-X is the negation of X, not necessarily a negative number by itself). In APL, -X is the negation of X, but negative 5 is written as ¯5.

The original APL\360 doesn’t support complex numbers.

A one-dimensional numeric array—a vector—is a sequence of scalars separated by one or more spaces. Notice that the APL code traditionally starts in the seventh column. The first six positions are reserved for the output ...

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