September 2022
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
12h 32m
English
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FOREWORD
Consider the following program:
Many who are used to modern programming languages will find this mystifying, yet it was not written in a deceptive style or an esoteric language. Some might recognize the funny w as a lowercase omega and place this as APL, a mathematical programming language created in the 1960s. This program calculates the first nine Fibonacci numbers (seven after the provided 1 1) using the power operator, drawn as a star with a diaeresis, a composite mark that has likely never found use—in programming or natural language—outside of APL.
It’s also a glimpse of how different “ordinary code" might have looked had language ...