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13:34 sivoais_ pdurbin: I've been learning APL! :-P
13:34 sivoais_ just to know how it works :-)
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16:47 pdurbin sivoais: do you like it?
16:48 pdurbin "influenced S" according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_%28programming_language%29
16:48 pdurbin so I wonder if it's much like R
16:49 pdurbin assignment with <- looks like
17:58 sivoais pdurbin: yes, assignment in APL has an arrow shape. APL uses special characters so it uses ←
17:59 sivoais (maybe) fun fact: in R, you can assign by using -> as well
17:59 sivoais a <- 42
17:59 sivoais 42 -> a
17:59 sivoais are equivalent
18:00 sivoais I'm liking APL quite a bit. It's a different way of thinking and mentally "speaking" code
18:05 pdurbin that was my guess from the wikipedia page
18:06 pdurbin I think Perl 6 supports non ascii characters too. I don't know how to type them.
18:08 sivoais ha, it has non-ASCII equivalents too!
18:08 sivoais I type some of them using Vim's digraphs
18:09 sivoais <Ctrl-K> < -
18:09 pdurbin huh. works
18:09 pdurbin :)
18:10 pdurbin ← ← ← ← ←
18:10 sivoais I know that some Haskellers like using Unicode replacements for some of the Haskell syntax, but only when rendered in the editor
18:10 pdurbin I'm pretty sure you can do this in Scala too.
18:10 * pdurbin saw a demo once
20:37 pdurbin bah. can't spel in commits. oh wel
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