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rbanffy on Aug 7, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Learning APL

I love how Forth taught me to build the language up instead if the program down.

de_Selby on Aug 7, 2021 [–]

That's something I like about array languages too, and Lisp is similar from what I know of it. Essentially defining a DSL for the problem and then working with it.

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