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Last new feature added 16 years ago; Last fix (for 64-bit) done 11 years ago -- but likely, real development stopped a decade before that, when Arthur Whitney left MS.

What he did later was create K (and kdb+ and now shakti), which are significantly farther away from APL (of which A+ is mostly just a very opinionated dialect), but which I personally find overall cleaner and more consistent.



I literally just heard about K for the first time while listening to fast.ai founder Jeremy Howard talk about it in a podcast, less than 5 minutes ago.

(https://youtu.be/J6XcP4JOHmk?t=696)

Do you recommend any resources for exploring these array languages? They sound really interesting.


You can evaluate the 32-bit version of q by downloading the binary from here: https://code.kx.com/v2/

The setup is a little annoying and you have to make sure q and the license file are in same directory or something, I vaguely remember that the error message was pretty cryptic but it is definitely worth taking it for a spin. It is an interesting piece of engineering and there are many interesting example scripts that you can find on the Web, although actually becoming productive in q is another matter entirely.


Just something I stumbled on while rummaging around:

https://tryapl.org/




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