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Michael Higginson, 2022 Dyalog Contest Winner

The Array Cast

CHAPTER

The Trap to Vector Thinking

Q is a language that defers the process of learning new programming languages. The first major thing I wrote in Q had to be rewritten because it performed like Java, and we didn't pick Q to get Java level performance. It's funny and not, you know, like where your case statement is a dollar sign or something like that; it's syntactically different enough that it feels exotic.

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