odetoj VS ngn-k-tutorial

Well, I read:

http://nsl.com/papers/origins.htm

https://github.com/zserge/odetoj

And watched a few neat videos on the concepts of APL. There's a black and white one on YouTube of a British fellow introducing it using a typewriter. :)

I vaguely get it, my beef with BQN besides being slow is that it is fledgling. And so I have no real excuse to play with it. Otherwise it seems like a holy grail, like, woah finally an APL/J/K to rule them all.

I've seen enough wide eyed salty lispers telling tales of white whales to fear for my sanity going on this quest.

Complain about the language or documentation, but array language communities are absolutely friendly to outsiders! This tutorial lists some active forums, give them a try:

https://github.com/razetime/ngn-k-tutorial/tree/main?tab=rea...

Also, have to shout out the APL Orchard, where Adám will give any visitor a personal tutorial: https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/52405/the-apl-orchard

To add to the list, this one is pretty good;

https://github.com/razetime/ngn-k-tutorial

If you like APL, then you probably want to try K, which is an ASCII-only array language with a focus on guided minimalism. For an open source K you can try ngn/k, which has a tutorial.

Razetime's matmul refactoring is brilliant: https://github.com/razetime/ngn-k-tutorial/blob/main/c-think...

Finally, some nice examples of k's concision:

  qs:{$[2>#?x;x;,/qs'x@&'~\:x<*1?x]}    / Quicksort