Array Languages for Clojurians (2020)

appliedscience.studio

106 points·simonpure··13 comments

Jeeze, the overlap of people who are interested in Clojure and array langs couldn't exceed the low double digits.

Well, if you are among that sort of masochist and you like Clojure and APL, you could play with libapl-clj: https://github.com/jjtolton/libapl-clj

I haven't touched it in awhile because honestly whether your coworkers do APL or your coworkers do Clojure they will hate you if you use this. Ye be warned.

God forbid there's interest in it we could add more support... but there are like 75 significant systems engineering and architecture questions you should be prepared to either answer or blithely ignore before using this Frankenstein's monster.

Interop to APL from Clojure is completely wild and masochistic indeed. Hadn't seen this, thanks

I tried making Dyalog bindings but wasn't smart enough to figure it out at the time based on the info available and I doubt much has changed regarding either my intelligence or information availability there. But it would be awesome!

> Not reimplementing APL instead

Come on, step it up! https://github.com/phantomics/april

EDIT: damn, didn't see it already got linked

Other work on integrating APL and lisp is here: https://github.com/phantomics/april

Also maybe see this: https://github.com/kspalaiologos/kamilalisp

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