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What Makes a Language an Array Programming Language?

The Array Cast

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APL2 - Vector, Not Array?

In original Iversa notation, you would write vectors as open brand or close brand. So if the comma is representing catonate or join, then your vector, your array is being constructed. And what I'm proposing here is the kind of like, or basic for an array language: You don't need a constructed of operations. Even BQN is much more explicitly like that. Yeah, you gotta read my lips. I said vector, not array. This is very, very simple. I think it's kind of minimal.

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