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A Conversation with Arthur Whitney

13 pointsby 17y agoqueue.acm.org
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17y agoHN ↗

It's mostly a discussion about his variants of APL. I don't understand the reasoning behind starting from scratch every time writes a new language but he does make some interesting observations about common lisp. Interesting, worth reading.

17y agoHN ↗

The article doesn't mention any free/open-source versions of Whitney's work, but I do know of one, A+. It was extended from A, which does get a mention.

http://www.aplusdev.org/

On another note, has anyone here played with the latest and greatest, Q?

17y agoHN ↗

I work with it daily. Very impressive stuff generally, but the domain is highly specific. Some of the guys who work with it are really smart. Soup to nuts sort of knowledge.

17y agoHN ↗

Hi, do you have a blog or would you be willing to post something about your experience with Q and KDB+? I worked in the financial industry for awhile and we were pulling some data from KDB+ systems. I thought about digging deeper into Q and KDB+, but other side projects kept me from really diving in.

Maybe I'll revisit it now that they offer a free trial version.

17y agoHN ↗

Octave, R, Lush, NumPy, and PDL (the Perl one) have some of the APL-nature too.