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It'd be a fun project to write a an APL-like that compiles down to NumPy. Would it be pointless? Another interesting project might be to make an APL-like for probabilistic programming.

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There's a start for this in Julia[0], where custom string literals mean that you can actually write APL in native Julia:

    julia> apl"ι5"
    1:5

    julia> apl"+/ι5"
    15

You can even just get the function that represents the `+/` operation and apply it to any Julia object:

    julia> apl"+/"(rand(100))
    52.17866879741195

0. https://github.com/shashi/APL.jl

My point is that it'd be pretty easy. The semantics are pretty close, it's only the syntax ("+/" -> "add.reduce") that varies.

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