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What Makes a Language an Array Programming Language?

The Array Cast

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Is There a Way to Create an X Matrix?

In J using imaginary numbers, you can actually insert zeros between ones. To me, that's what an array language allows me to do. It takes it up to a different level. If you go to languages that are not array language, but can represent arrays, such as C++, you're doing an awful lot of work just to work the array. But in an array language, it allows you to work with an array and then play with an array.

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