Questions tagged [apl]
For questions about the design of, or languages or features which are closely related to, APL.
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What was the complete list of overstrikes supported by Multics APL?
APL famously has a lot of "characters" that are really two other characters overstruck. I was surprised to read in this Multics APL manual from 1985 that this extended even to overstriking <...
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Is there a language where "everything is a dataframe"?
In APL, you don't need to write loops because scalar operations are automatically "broadcast" (mapped and zipped) across arrays.
For example a grayscale image could be a 2D array, which is ...
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Why would an APL implementation include "Deep Transpose"?
APL64 includes a ⎕DTR system function which, as far as I can tell, is equivalent to ⍉¨⍉ i.e. the transposed outer array with ...
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