Stop Doing APL

STOP DOING APL • KEYBOARD WASN'T SUPPOSED TO TYPE UNICODE • YEARS OF TRAINS yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for anything except AoC • Wanted to type λX↔‡;°] ? We had a tool for that: It was called std::sort • “Yes please give me ⊞B of something. Please give me ⊗B of it” - Statements dreamed up by evil wizards LOOK at what APL devs have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the keymaps & IDES we built for them (This is REAL code, done by REAL APL devs): ?????? ??????? ??????????????? “Hello I would like 0≅ÄO apples please” They have played us for absolute fools

A satirical anti-APL meme compares APL’s unusual Unicode-heavy syntax and keyboard demands with the supposedly absurd-looking code produced by APL developers. The punchline is that the author pretends ordinary programmers have been tricked into accepting bizarre symbols and syntax as “real code,” ending with a nonsensical request for apples. EN: A satirical anti-APL meme compares APL’s unusual Unicode-heavy syntax and keyboard demands with the supposedly absurd-looking code produced by APL developers. The punchline is that the author pretends ordinary programmers have been tricked into accepting bizarre symbols and syntax as “real code,” ending with a nonsensical request for apples.

• @gentoomemes / 8691 2024-01-13
• @gentoomemes / 9514 2024-02-19