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BQN "Macros" with •Decompose (2023)

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My 2 cents on BQN: I am certainly a novice with array languages, but I know they have conceptual power.

    Looking for a modern, powerful language centered on Ken Iverson's array programming paradigm

    BQN aims to remove irregular and burdensome aspects of the APL tradition, and put the great ideas on a firmer footing.

And BQN seems like the closest thing to a 'modern' array language. Modern, meaning, looking like my biased version of what language should look like.

Open source, has namespaces, and you can define your own operators and so on.

Heard of it from conor hoekstra

It took me a moment to realize what BQN was; I had never heard of it before.

Almost no one has.

It's well known in the array community.... which is practically nobody, so you're correct :)

It is exciting to see free and open source languages like this and uiua maturing though.

https://www.uiua.org/

I really wish I could justify investing time learning these languages but the RoI is too low. Learning TLA+ seems to have a better RoI because LLMs are good at writing programs using a TLA+ specification.

I'm in a similar boat. It would be cool ...but how would I use it outside of hobbies.

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