What Makes a Language an Array Programming Language?
The Array Cast
Is BQN an Array Language?
An array language is one where the primary influence is, I can't ever since APL, and that's kind of just all it is. There are several different features of these languages that come together. Some languages like Neil don't quite work the same. They changed things to words.
Array Cast - September 16, 2022
Show Notes
Many thanks to Bob Therriault for gathering these links:
[01] 00:02:20 Iverson College Workshop https://community.kx.com/t5/New-kdb-q-users-question-forum/Vector-programming-in-q-online-workshop-Sun-25-Sep/td-p/13067
[02] 00:03:18 Jot dot times https://apl.news/
[03] 00:03:40 APLQuest https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYKQVqyrAEj9zSwnh4K28nCApruWA1j_m
[04] 00:04:22 APL Barcelona Meetup https://aplwiki.com/wiki/APL_∊_BCN#Historical_APL_paper_reading_group
Meetup https://www.meetup.com/apl-bcn/events/287974824/
[06] 00:05:15 Paul Mansour's Blog https://www.toolofthought.com/posts
[07] 00:05:34 APLwiki Blogs https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Blogs
[08] 00:07:50 Conor's talk from Toronto Meetup https://youtu.be/8ynsN4nJxzU
[09] 00:09:26 IEEE Spectrum Language List https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages-2022
[10] 00:15:05 TIOBE Language list https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
[11] 00:15:55 Stack Overflow Language list https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/
[12] 00:16:45 The Array Cast Episode #1 https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode-00-why-i-like-array-languages
[13] 00:17:08 Conor's Array Language Comparison https://github.com/codereport/array-language-comparisons
[14] 00:18:00 k programming language https://k.miraheze.org/wiki/Learning_Resources
[15] 00:18:40 Nial https://www.nial-array-language.org/
[16] 00:20:40 Iverson Notation https://apl.wiki/Iverson_Notation
[17] 00:21:45 APL2 https://aplwiki.com/wiki/APL2
Jim Brown https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Jim_Brown
[18] 00:25:11 Transpose https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Transpose
[19] 00:26:00 Reshape https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Reshape
[20] 00:29:00 X matrix tweet https://twitter.com/code_report/status/1564757140513996801
J complex copying https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/number#dyadic
[21] 00:32:06 Roger Hui https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Roger_Hui
[22] 00:38:15 Marshall's Outer Product Lambdaconf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlUHw4hC4OY
[23] 00:39:08 Ken Iverson https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Ken_Iverson
[24] 00:41:38 Julia https://julialang.org/
Numpy https://numpy.org/
Matlab https://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab.html
LAPACK https://netlib.org/lapack/
Single Assignment C https://www.sac-home.org/index
[25] 00:42:20 APL\360 https://aplwiki.com/wiki/APL%5C360
[26] 00:45:57 q programming language https://code.kx.com/q/
[27] 00:47:07 rank in q https://community.kx.com/t5/kdb-and-q/Iterating-lists-and-dictionaries/m-p/13065#M141
[28] 00:50:40 Arthur Whitney https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Arthur_Whitney
[29] 00:58:45 PHP https://www.php.net/
[30] 00:59:27 JavaScript https://www.javascript.com/
[31] 01:01:40 Lisp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)
[32] 01:02:25 BQN https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/
[33] 01:04:38 Venn Diagram https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venn_diagram
[34] 01:07:50 Futhark https://futhark-lang.org/
[35] 01:08:36 Combinators https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/12/combinators-and-the-story-of-computation/
[36] 01:10:24 Cosy http://www.cosy.com/language/
Haskell https://www.haskell.org/
[37] 01:14:14 F# https://fsharp.org/
[38] 01:22:10 Leading Axis theory https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Leading_axis_theory
[39] 01:23:40 Rank Polymorphism https://prl.ccs.neu.edu/blog/2017/05/04/rank-polymorphism/#:~:text=Each%20of%20these%20use%20cases,arguments%20and%20one%20scalar%20argument.
[40] 01:24:40 Diagrams on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEywreN02ng
Tweet of Diagram https://twitter.com/code_report/status/1569741807285567492/photo/1
Updated Tweet of Diagram https://twitter.com/code_report/status/1570069385548537857/photo/1
[41] 01:26:06 contact@ArrayCast.com
[42] 01:26:56 Array programming influences https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Family_tree_of_array_languages
[43] 01:27:20 BQN list of functional languages https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/doc/functional.html
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