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		pitr on June 22, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pocketlang Off topic: for those thinking it was a programming language optimized for a phone (like I did) the only one I’ve seen come close to being usable is J (APL derivative). I’ve been able to solve quite a few advent of code challenges this way: 1. App https://apps.apple.com/de/app/j701/id1255235993?l=en (there’s an android version I believe) 2. Copy input from page 3. `+/ ".jgetcb''` to get sum

alanbernstein on June 22, 2021 [–]

I've just barely begun learning about the APL languages, but I have this tab open that you might be interested in: https://wjmn.github.io/posts/j-can-look-like-apl/

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