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Video: Array-Oriented Programming in JavaScript & Python 1 1

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RikedyP RikedyP

BQN FFI 540

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bqn

Rowan Rowan

1 C calling convention format

Marshall Lochbaum

0 USE CASES

Rowan

0 USER STORIES

Rowan

0 Model 2 - JNA-Like (C calling convention)

Rowan

0 MODEL 1 - JNI-Like (BQN calling convention)

Rowan

0 PRIOR WORK

Rowan

What initial set of tags do we want? 30

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Jack Douglas Jack Douglas

1 Initial tags

Adám

0 https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Category:Paradigms

RikedyP

0 Yeah are we gonna go hard with the dialects?

RikedyP

What should our scope be? 33 1

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Adám Adám

2 [APL](https://aplwiki.com) and APL-like languages (e.g. [J](https://aplwiki.com/wiki/J), [K](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_(programming_language)) and [Q](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(programming_language_from_Kx_Systems))), along with [array programming](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Array_programming) in any language (e.g. [NumPy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NumPy), [Julia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_(programming_language)), and [MatLab](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATLAB)) (especially if in comparison to APLs).

RikedyP

1 APL only

Adám

1 There are [only 227](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/apl) questions tagged `apl` on SO. There are also [368](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/j) tagged `j` and [46](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/k) tagged `k`.

Jack Douglas

0 Dyalog only

Adám

codegolf.ta-like banner indicating scope of topanswers.xyz/apl 3

RikedyP RikedyP

BQN design: •math 35

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bqn

Marshall Lochbaum Marshall Lochbaum

2 Combinatorics

Marshall Lochbaum

2 C-style math.h

Marshall Lochbaum

0 Prime numbers

Marshall Lochbaum

0 APL math primitives

Marshall Lochbaum

How do APL characters render here?

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Adám Adám

0 `+⌿÷≢` +⌿÷≢

Adám

BQN library requests

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Marshall Lochbaum Marshall Lochbaum

0 JSON

Marshall Lochbaum

0 Polynomial utilities

Marshall Lochbaum

0 Prime number utilities

Marshall Lochbaum

0 Binary Search Trees!

Rowan

0 Hi - I'll throw some answers in here :)

Anonymous 2596

BeamQN Design and Implementation 17

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implementation

Rowan Rowan

1 Additional thoughts.

Rowan

0 It's Vegabook here (Thomas Browne) and I wanted to provide a few points of perspective, on my interest in BQN on the Beam, some of which I have already provided on Matrix. I provide this not because of me, per se, but because I believe that a non-trivial subset of data scientists will have similar perspectives, so my background may be useful. The below summarises some of my points in my chat with @Gander (Rowan Cannaday) two days ago (Friday 29 Dec 2023).

Vegabook

@Jack Right, then I think DejaVu Sans + BQN386 will be best as DejaVu Sans will at least render APL acceptably when people forget to markdown their code, and BQN386 (being almost identical to APL385) will look most familiar, since the site is mainly Dyalog focused, and APL385 is Dyalog's go-to font.

Things to note about DejaVu BQN Sans Mono (hosted [here](https://github.com/mlochbaum/BQN/blob/master/docs/DejaVuBQNSansMono.ttf)) are that it has no bold or italic version, and it changes some APL characters to align better. So it's not entirely a drop-in replacement.

Regarding fonts, can we add options to support plain monospace/serif/sans-serif, and either [BQN386](https://github.com/dzaima/BQN386) or [Fairfax HD](http://www.kreativekorp.com/software/fonts/fairfaxhd.shtml)? In my wild optimism I'm hoping some people will use BQN here, and in that case they'll want an option that supports BQN characters like `𝕩⎉⥊`.