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What does ⍋⍋ even mean? (2023)(blog.wilsonb.com)
32 points by tosh 4 days ago | 15 comments
magicalhippo 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I see weird symbols like that I think APL. I haven't touched APL but I know weird symbols when I see it.

And checking the article... Tags: apl

cocodill 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Aren't those the Twin Pines from Back to the Future?

stirfish 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Did you mean the Lone Pine?

cheschire 2 hours ago | parent [-]

You space bastard! You killed my pine!

arto 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

My very first thought as well.

Qem 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Appears like the twin pines cooperativism symbol.

semiquaver 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What does [APL] even mean?

dbt00 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

an obscure but very powerful matrix-centered programming language usually considered to be "write only", as in impossible to read what someone else wrote.

jonahx an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> usually considered to be "write only"

Only by the ignorant and uninitiated.

mikelitoris 23 minutes ago | parent [-]

I’m sure you’re fun to work with

jonahx 4 minutes ago | parent [-]

I am!

bossyTeacher 44 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

> as in impossible to read what someone else wrote.

Can you even read what you wrote several years ago?

gerdesj 25 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

40 years ago (at school) I generally wrote in ink - edged and straight nibs, blue and black ink because I liked it. I learned several formal styles as well as my idiosyncratic efforts. I did have biros and fibre tips etc available. I had loads of choice. My parent's generation was probably the last of the ink and nib first users.

dylan604 39 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Wait, isn't that what they say about perl?

zem 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"a programming language".