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APL at Julia's Speed | Shashi Gowda | JuliaCon 2016

The Julia Programming Language · 3.5K views · 2016-07-10 · 8:34

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A JuliaCon 2016 talk by Shashi Gowda showing an APL implementation in Julia. APL code is translated to Julia and JIT compiled to machine code.

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Cited in APL and Julia threads as a neat way to run APL-style syntax at Julia's speed.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2016–2019

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newen · 2018-01 · Recommendation

Reminds me of the APL interpreter in Julia ( [VIDEO] ). The APL code gets translated to Julia data structures, which is then mapped to Julia code, which is then compiled to machine code via Julia's JIT. I thought it was a pretty neat way to run APL.

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improbable22 · 2019-03 · Reference

I just found that there's a Julia package for at least some APL syntax, perhaps an easy way to play. [3] is a fork updated for v1.0: [1] [VIDEO] [2] [LINK] [3] [LINK]

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ChrisRackauckas · 2018-05 · Reference

In fact, it can get extremely close: [VIDEO] And since you can define your own operators, you could just go all of the way.

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