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> In the middle 70s it was COBOL, when COBOL'74 came out it became king of in-house programming for IBM I thought IBM were still focused on APL in the 70s…

> "[Phoenix] repackages off-the-shelf semiconductors into devices that are virtually identical to the phased-out chips." I'm slightly surprised that _virtually_ identical chips are…

Thanks for sharing that!

> AI is not delivering 10x shareholder value, anywhere. A bit facetious, but I'd expect Nvidia and the like providing the "AI equipment" to have a 10× share value at least…

How so? I'm struggling to see how Roger's manipulation of the expressions without executing each line validates Dijkstra's point...

For a smaller example, try the J Incunabulum[0] various explanations are available [1][2] It's been discussed here before too. [0] https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulu…

> I'd argue a 50% hit to performance [...] is ... quite the regression Indeed! Especially if said regression happens to impact anything trade/market related...

> daily drivers (ppc64le, Apple silicon) How come you're running ppc64le as a daily driver?

> the only relevant big-endian architecture is s390x The adjacent POWER architecture is also still relevant - but as you say, they too can afford a support contract.

oh, thanks! I didn't know that Prolog was still used commercially.

Likely because whilst it didn't work out commercially, the ideas smalltalk, prolog and other more esoteric languages (forth, apl) focus on are themselves very interesting.

> Humans trust. Their systems should too. And indeed as Thompson showed, you've got to trust at some point... https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2223/R209/Reflections-Trus...

> Good science fiction where the aliens are very alien are hard to come by I feel this is one of the reasons I liked Fire upon the Deep with the group mind based Tines

Cool story - thanks for sharing it!

This is exceedingly nasty. Well Done!

more the names then the functions themselves

They sort of did with the Cell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(processor)

huh, can you not use the Xkb APL symbols file? I thought that compose definitions as well as the shifted layout…

Right, thank you! I recognised the " as rank but got confused by the _ reading https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/under , it seemed to be 'rank negative' and didn't see wha…

> Vs=: 4r3p1"_ * ] ^ 3: What's the "_ for?

Average is zero empty =. 0$0 NB. zero length array +/empty 0 #empty 0 0%0 0

Yep, the office has a p9 box and normally the only times it's needed rebooted is after a power cut. Very solid boxes!

> PRs are emails to your team and to your future self. Indeed! I've found many point on this discussion answered by the linux kernel idea of mailing lists where a change is discuss…

Remember, simple is not the same easy

5 characters? I thought it was normally six 6bit characters?