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Is there a comprehensive comparison between the strengths/weaknesses of APL and numpy?

I have been interested in APL and friends for some time, but have not yet seen an example which made me commit to taking the time to learn it. numpy (and JAX) have been doing everything I wanted, so far.

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I am not aware of such a comparison, but I hope this quote will encourage you to have a serious look at APL:

> i don't know one week of studying some APL i could just visualize how I would do that and I would just run and no error every time. Like one week of study APL did more for my expertise, you know, by then more than one year coding in JAX and NumPy.

João Araújo in The Array Cast: https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode33-joao-araujo

Thanks for the suggestion! The quote indeed sounds promising. I was a bit disappointed by the episode though, because they don't really go into what exactly the learnings are. I guess that is to be expected from a podcast in which _each_ episode is about APL :D

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