What does ⍋⍋ even mean? (2023)

(blog.wilsonb.com)

32 points | by tosh 3 days ago

4 comments

magicalhippo 1 hour ago

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 2 hours ago

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

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- stirfish 2 hours ago
  
  Did you mean the Lone Pine?
  
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  - cheschire 2 hours ago
    
    You space bastard! You killed my pine!
- arto 1 hour ago
  
  My very first thought as well.
Qem 1 hour ago

Appears like the twin pines cooperativism symbol.
semiquaver 1 hour ago

What does [APL] even mean?

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- dbt00 1 hour ago
  
  an obscure but very powerful matrix-centered programming language usually considered to be "write only", as in impossible to read what someone else wrote.
  
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  - jonahx 1 hour ago
    
    > usually considered to be "write only"
    Only by the ignorant and uninitiated.
    
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    - mikelitoris 21 minutes ago
      
      I’m sure you’re fun to work with
      
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      - jonahx 2 minutes ago
        
        I am!
  - bossyTeacher 42 minutes ago
    
    > as in impossible to read what someone else wrote.
    Can you even read what you wrote several years ago?
    
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    - gerdesj 23 minutes ago
      
      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 37 minutes ago
      
      Wait, isn't that what they say about perl?
- zem 1 hour ago
  
  "a programming language".