Thread: How not to program in Dyalog APL

"APL follows a set of practices that directly contradict traditional programming wisdom" [slides] (sway.com)

L 23 pts 9 comments by akkartik Mar 3, 2018 aplprogramming Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread

From Competitive Programming to APL (corecursive.com)

L 12 pts 5 comments by calvin Jun 3, 2021 aplaudioprogrammingtranscript Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread

Myna v2.0.0 beta: Myna now supports bold/italic variants and even APL programming (github.com)

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What is Programmer Anarchy and does it have a future? (martinjeeblog.wordpress.com)

L 3 pts 0 comments by cjh Jul 17, 2013 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

A new way to organize programs (akkartik.name)

L 3 pts 0 comments by akkartik Nov 25, 2013 practicesprogrammingshow Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Are Your Programmers Working Hard, Or Are They Lazy? (mikehadlow.blogspot.co.uk)

L 2 pts 0 comments by journeysquid Dec 13, 2013 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Your Progress As A Programmer Is All Up To You (thecodist.com)

L 5 pts 0 comments by journeysquid Feb 9, 2014 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

You Don't Want to Think Like a Programmer (prog21.dadgum.com)

L 16 pts 2 comments by leeflannery Feb 13, 2014 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

"Mostly functional" programming does not work (queue.acm.org)

L 19 pts 7 comments by apy Apr 27, 2014 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Semantic Compression [in Programming] (mollyrocket.com)

L 3 pts 2 comments by rw Jun 11, 2014 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Programming Without Being Obsessed With Programming (prog21.dadgum.com)

L 22 pts 0 comments by inactive-user Jun 14, 2014 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming (users.ece.utexas.edu)

L 33 pts 81 comments by daGrevis Jul 6, 2014 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Programming Rules and Conventions (erlang.se)

L 5 pts 2 comments by MSch Jul 6, 2014 erlangpracticesprogramming Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory Productivity / Career / Business thread

The Joys of Maintenance Programming (typicalprogrammer.com)

L 1 pts 0 comments by pushcx Aug 25, 2014 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

The Future Programming Manifesto (alarmingdevelopment.org)

L 5 pts 2 comments by nwjsmith Aug 27, 2014 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

The fundamental problem of programming language package management (blog.ezyang.com)

L 21 pts 7 comments by englishm Sep 11, 2014 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory Productivity / Career / Business thread

Thinking for Programmers (channel9.msdn.com)

L 6 pts 0 comments by SeanTAllen Oct 11, 2014 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Leslie Lamport inventor of Paxos and developer of LaTeX introduces techniques and tools that help programmers think above the code level to determine what applications and services should do and ensure that they do it. Depending on the task, the appropriate tools can range from simple prose to forma...

The Case for Slow Programming (ventrellathing.wordpress.com)

L 13 pts 8 comments by GeoffWozniak Dec 1, 2014 culturepracticesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

What most young programmers need to learn (joostdevblog.blogspot.com)

L 1 pts 0 comments by journeysquid Jan 6, 2015 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Programming Paradigms for Dummies: What Every Programmer Should Know (info.ucl.ac.be)

L 7 pts 1 comments by pushcx Feb 22, 2015 pdfpracticesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Programming Language Primitive Safety Rank (deliberate-software.com)

L 3 pts 3 comments by steveshogren Mar 7, 2015 culturejavajavascriptpracticesprogramming Web Development Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory Productivity / Career / Business Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Here is my third draft on a model for scoring programming languages for primitive safety. Any feedback or pull requests for new languages appreciated!

Dad and The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming (blog.stephenwyattbush.com)

L 11 pts 0 comments by journeysquid Mar 16, 2015 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Programmer Interrupted (2013) (blog.ninlabs.com)

L 17 pts 11 comments by pushcx Jun 1, 2015 practicesprogrammingscience Programming (General)Science / Math / Physics Productivity / Career / Business thread

Functional Programming should be your #1 priority for 2015 (medium.com)

L 16 pts 10 comments by pushcx Jun 8, 2015 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory Productivity / Career / Business thread

Functional programming, APL and Unix pipes (2007) (porg.es)

L 4 pts 0 comments by pushcx Jul 19, 2015 haskellprogrammingunix Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread

The dumbing-down of programming (1998) (salon.com)

L 4 pts 5 comments by pushcx Sep 10, 2015 culturepracticesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

[Part Two](http://www.salon.com/1998/05/13/feature_320/)

Your first year as a programmer (happybearsoftware.com)

L 7 pts 0 comments by mooreds Oct 26, 2015 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

What are the most polarizing programming languages? (varianceexplained.org)

L 8 pts 1 comments by pushcx Nov 4, 2015 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory Productivity / Career / Business thread

Formulating the Ethics of Programming (amcaplan.ninja)

L 9 pts 11 comments by joshuacc Nov 18, 2015 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Numbers Every Programmer Should Know By Year (eecs.berkeley.edu)

L 15 pts 2 comments by friendlysock Nov 20, 2015 compscipracticesprogramming Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory Productivity / Career / Business thread