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Why have UTF8 support if you won't write your code in the Sumerian clay tablet alphabet of Ancient Mesopotamia? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by qaz to c/[email protected]

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[–] steventhedev 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

this doesn't hold a candle to APL:

sudoku←{⎕io←0       ⍝ Whitney/Last
    p←{(↑⍵)∘{(⍺∨.=⍵)/⍳n×n}¨,⍵},(n*÷2){⍵,⍺⊥⌊⍵÷⍺}¨⍳n n←⍴⍵
    m←{(⊂⍵)⌈(⊂⍺=⍳⍴⍵)×(1+⍳n)~⍵[⍺⊃p]}
    (⍴⍵)∘⍴¨⊃{⊃,/⍺ m¨⍵}/{(⍸⍵=0),⊂⊂⍵},⍵
}

[–] bhamlin 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The difference is that the above Sumerian could be dealt with using find and replace in a dire situation, while APL is a write-only language.

[–] stingpie 2 points 2 months ago

I dunno, there's probably less than ten people who can actually speak Sumerian, and there's at least a dozen people who can read APL.