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The more I do APL and K, the more I see forks and hooks everywhere else. That's just a couple of little helpers I've added in some c...

Here's a devastating quote from Andy Kinslow (NATO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING CONFERENCE ,1968)  There are two classes of system designers. Th...

In kdb+ there's a great way of showing aggregated information called `aj` for asof join . This way of joining data is a neat way to get ...

`scan` is an adverb in apl / j / k which is used to reduce an array over an operation, while keeping all the intermediate results. It's...

Since My " On Writing " post, a few posts came through HN that touched somehow on the communication styles, context, and missconce...

There's a new podcast about array programming languages! https://www.arraycast.com/ In the first chapter, they mention Richard Park'...

A recent personal take on ergonomics and compression: Why is vim so addictive, and somehow it's difficult to explain to non vim fanatics...

So recently I saw a couple of posts that mention APL approaches to problems. The cool thing is that I saw those in a Perl related forum and ...

John Conway passed away recently, so let's look at his Game of Life from the APL/J/K perspective. https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/eem...

I found this gist on finding reachable nodes in a graph super entertaining. Every time I read on APL/J/K I feel this intense deep puzzle sol...

So here are a couple of nice reads that, although they're not new, they somehow teached me something new today about J. First one is ...

 So here are some links about this amazing language, that I'm starting to like more and more, although I see it nearly impossible to do ...

APL self hosted compiler https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13797797 APL self hosted compiler screencast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...