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Pavel

10:02 PM

Even though Mathematica really doesn't resemble APL in any significant way other than that they're both math-related.

@wizzwizz4 what's that?

Adám

@Pavel Mathematica has shape as a concept, e.g. Dimensions[{{}, {}}] gives {2, 0}. Most languages don't do that.

Luis Mendo

Matlab's size?

Pavel

@Adám Now the question is, was that APL inspired, it just another one of myriads of builtins? I don't believe Mathematica has a reshape equivalent.

Adám

@LuisMendo It's on Wikipedia's inspired-by-APL list…

@Pavel ArrayReshape

Pavel

Mm, neat

Luis Mendo

10:13 PM

Matlab/Octave also has reshape

Funny to find so many similarities

flawr

What about why? :)

Luis Mendo

Haha

Aw. Not even Octave has it :-(

Luckily, MATL does :-D

Adám

Even Intel has been directly inspired by APL. Compare with APL's Compress and Expand.

Luis Mendo

What about AppleScript? :-D

Adám

TFW your programming language shapes the hardware it is running on. (Yes, we do take advantage of those instructions.)

flawr

10:23 PM

@LuisMendo this command is damn clever

I bet you just introduced the X- Y- Z- commands because of why XD

Luis Mendo

Sure. I needed an excuse to make why be represented as Y?, haha

flawr

btw is there a way to seed the rng of MATL?

Luis Mendo

Not right now. The equivalent of rand('seed',3) should work, but it doesn't because r insists on having agt least 1 output

I can easily change that though

Hosch250

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HyperNeutrino

11:34 PM

@totallyhuman It appears that your Neon Discord channel invitation link has expired (maybe you didn't change it to not expire mode? idk). Could i haz link tyty :D

ATaco

The only thing Funky has inspired is a minor rise in insanity.

HyperNeutrino

lol

that's a good thing :D

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