Hacker News Reader

Comment by JoshGG | Hacker News Reader

MATLAB is an array language.

Yeah - IDK why it never makes it to these lists. R too. Matlab being 2D matrix first/default gets it right for me there. IK matrices trivially translate to arrays, still: find 2D to be extra expressive on human level, for zero price paid. I get it it's all the same to the cpu. 2D rows-columns rectangle of data being the simplest data structure both necessary and sufficient covering a 1) matrix 2) spreadsheet 3) SQL table 4) directed graph of nodes and edges. (in the past I've read someplace that lists are for pie eaters, but wouldn't know myself

MATLAB doesn't even have 1-d arrays, it really is missing the principled and composable operations that make array languages useful

I believe the ArrayCast had this debate on whether it's considered an arraylang when they had some of the MATLAB devs on.

The determination they came to was that MATLAB is an array lang but not an iversonian array lang.

guys,

symbolic algebra package and a computer language are not the same thing :) not even remotely.

MATLAB doesn't have a FOSS implementation that runs in a browser.

Octave covers all the Matlab functionality I need, not sure if it runs in a browser. I mean if you have the source code for something there must be some way to get it to run in a browser these days, right?

of course it runs in a browser - pretty much everything you can build using clang will run on the web. including linux kernel and llvm itself.

to hell with peanuts: i'm pretty sure someone must even built cpython interpreter to wasm target, why not. there is no limit of what can be achieved by a group of motivated people with zero sense of direction.

k, however, makes quite a bit of sense on the web - also on your phone. and time to prompt is going to be MUCH faster than python and octave. and i mean their native builds :)

https://kparc.io/k/

backslash is reference card, cmd+[] some examples

it is one of their cousins

Reply on news.ycombinator.com