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What Makes a Language an Array Programming Language?

The Array Cast

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Is APL Any Less of an Array Language?

In stranding, it doesn't matter whether an array uses explicit symbol or not, does it? Not after you parse it. No, but we're talking only talking about vectors. And I would disagree anyway with that whole thing. Okay, how often do you actually write literal arrays out when you're programming? Sure, for teaching and demonstration purposes,. But when you're dealing with real data, you can easily have a large program that doesn't have a single array listed anywhere.

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