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"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Might not, since for this kind of thing most likely either you give up in couple minutes (which it is not a heinous since it does not waste your time anyway) or you just read it.

The distinction between “seeing” code and “reading” it is right on point.

Ha! The guy who wrote this is the same guy who invented ~~APL~~ a number of APL inspired languages (Edit: He did not invent APL. Thanks for the corrections!), so I suspect he may just be built different.

https://www.jsoftware.com/ioj/iojATW.htm

Have you seen anything written in K itself? Here's a program to calculate primes:

    2_&{&/x!/:2_!x}'!R

I'm sure ATW knows a lot of APL, but APL itself was created by Ken Iverson when ATW was just a small child. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_E._Iverson

APL was invented by Kenneth Iverson, the other person mentioned on the page, not Arthur Whitney.

I was not convinced of the readability of APL, but compared to its successors which tried to stick to ASCII, I've learned to appreciate the merits of an extended character set.

A program written in Unix dc(1) would look as weird as that.

How would you implement the same functionality?

you must have seen a lot of code.

Your code better? What metric?

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