Approximate Abstractions

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TinyAPL part 13: The Biggest Mistake, The Biggest Change

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I made a big mistake. Today I fix it. (spoiler: it's index origin)

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TinyAPL part 12: At Depth and Ordering

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At Depth is finally added to TinyAPL and ordering is made sane.

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TinyAPL part 11: Bases and Searching

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TinyAPL gets base conversion and search functions

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TinyAPL part 10: Wraps, Structs, a Standard Library

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TinyAPL gets first-class functions and namespaces.

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TinyAPL part 9: More Tacit!

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TinyAPL finally gets trains, plus some extra combinators.

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TinyAPL part 8: All About Rank, and a Web Interface

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TinyAPL finally gets a better interface and a much-needed conjunction.

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TinyAPL part 7: Quads, Key, Index

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TinyAPL gets quad names and a big refactoring.

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TinyAPL part 6: Tests, Docs, Each

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TinyAPL finally gets tests and documentation.

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TinyAPL part 5: Array Notation and Reductions

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In this post, I add array notation to TinyAPL, as well as reductions, scans, and a few other primitives.

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TinyAPL part 4: Finally, Parsing!

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I finally figured out how to parse APL, so now TinyAPL has a parser and an interpreter.

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TinyAPL part 3: More Primitives

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In this post I implement some of the less intuitive primitives for TinyAPL.

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TinyAPL part 2: Functions & Operators

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In this post, I will add functions and operators to the Haskell representation of TinyAPL.

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Extending indices to floating-point values

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We all know `3 7 4[1]` is `3` and `3 7 4[2]` is `7`, but what about `3 7 4[1.5]`?

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TinyAPL part 1: Introduction & Arrays

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In this series of articles, I will implement a simple APL dialect named TinyAPL in Haskell.

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What Does "What Does ⍋⍋ Even Mean?" Even Mean?

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A while back I was casually perusing the articles on Jo̊t Dọt Ti̽mes and fell in love with almost anything that Brandon Wilson writes up. In his What Does ⍋⍋ Even Mean?, he shares a quote that just feels like a challenge.

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On Wilson's "On Hsu's Suggestivity and Idioms"

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Recently, Brandon Wilson posted a nice article discussing a nice article discussing a way in which APL's algebraic properties absolutely shine.

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