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Naming is Hard

The Array Cast

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The Lazy APL Programmer

A PL background as a prototyping language. It gives you these concepts in the form of symbols and you string those together to express what it is you have in mind. And then it happens to be executable in modern day. Yeah. So, I mean, the nature of APL is that if you can write it in APL, it must be able to run. Maybe it will go into an infinite loop, but even in that case, that's probably because you used an imperative construct in the wrong way. And then you can see that. Well, I'm going to get onto some thin ice here and start a rabbit running and mix the metaphors.

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