unpx[asciilifeform]: jonsykkel: I found this very interesting https://www.jsoftware.com/books/pdf/aioj.pdf
unpx[asciilifeform]: related: https://www.youtube.com/live/NiferfBvN3s?t=2672 gist: History of APL, J, K, BQN. K has 9 variants. K5 later became Q, sold for 53 millions cuz trasactions goes brr and they can query their db faster. 50KB of binary. yikes
unpx[asciilifeform]: I hope I'll have time to explore different ways to compute from the classic desk calculator
asciilifeform: unpx: asciilifeform seen 'j' prior, found interesting (but never fired in anger, to date) ; not seen this impl. before, loox interestingly compact, will read
unpx[asciilifeform]: Here they fixed On Lisp pictures: https://www.lurklurk.org/onlisp/onlisp.html
asciilifeform: unpx: at 1 time we had an apl aficionado here; if yer deeply into the subj, may want to write to him
unpx[asciilifeform]: For K see also https://nsl.com/
asciilifeform had nfi 'on lisp' was outta print again
asciilifeform fwiw has the 1st ed., bought in flea market when was an undergrad
unpx[asciilifeform]: asciilifeform I think verisimilitudes is writing his own pest client
asciilifeform: iirc he did once say he was attempting it
unpx[asciilifeform] currently in an internship writing Android applications for payments -- mostly bored
asciilifeform on a lengthy (possibly permanent..) sabbatical from commercial worx; presently trying to catch up on maffs reading; aims to resume various long-neglected projs in coming months
awt_akris[asciilifeform]: congrats asciilifeform
asciilifeform: awt_akris: arguably too early for congrats, but ty
asciilifeform: atm still in 'detox' from 3+y of abject salt mine hell
jonsykkel[asciilifeform]: impresting unpx
jonsykkel[asciilifeform]: to bad the src is 100%unreadabl