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APL: An Array Oriented Programming Language (2018) | Mar 2023

I guess you're referring to this: https://github.com/danlm/QNial7

Challenging LR Parsing | Sep 2020

As a nearby comment observes, this leads to s-expressions.

The connection between APL syntax and s-expressions is surprisingly close. Start with prefix notation and right-associativity, add grouping parens, and you have something that looks like lisp. The Nial language is an outright fusion of the two that's fun and enlightening to play with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nial https://github.com/danlm/QNial7

Fml: An optimizing array programming language | Jan 2020

This looks rather nice and in some ways resembles Nial (https://github.com/danlm/QNial7) in that its a array language that is more accessible to programmers not familiar with APL/K/Q etc

However the gist is over 8 years old and there doesnt seem to be a public repository for the language available.

Edit: add NIal repo link

J can look like APL or English | Aug 2019

People who are interested in a more readable APL should have a look at Nial:

https://github.com/danlm/QNial7

It is a fairly standard APL which inherently uses english-like notation instead of symbols.

Ask HN: What is your favorite non-generic or semi-obscure programming language? | Jul 2019

Nial (and its interpreter QNial) is strangely unheard-of. It's an intruiging APL-like that uses English words and a simple, general syntax that permits nested parentheses, allowing lisp-like code. It extends APL to multidimensional arrays a la Numpy (which it well predates - 1981!), and throws in some interesting and exotic ideas for good measure such as arrays of point-free functions as a first-class structure. It's a lot of fun to do Project Euler type math problems in, and captures the essential spirit of APL/J/K etc but without the obfuscated syntax.

  isprime is op n {not ((n = 1) or (0 in (n mod (rest count (floor (sqrt n))))))}

https://github.com/danlm/QNial7

https://tangentstorm.github.io/nial/intro.ndf.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nial

K7 Tutorial | Apr 2019

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If you would prefer to use keywords instead of symbols, Nial is a good option: https://github.com/danlm/QNial7

K7 Tutorial | Apr 2019

Perhaps Nial would be of interest: https://github.com/danlm/QNial7

Arthur Whitney's 'B' Language | Mar 2019

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This is worth a look. Some of the old A+ stuff is as well. I'm told by reliable sources that an awful lot of Art's code looked like this over the years; even the more recent K7 stuff. Art's gonna do his thing. Opinions differ as to whether or not it is a generally good idea, but you can't argue with the results, and at this point I find stuff like the J source code to be fairly readable, even if it is really different from what most people are used to. Basically, you're just expressing C as APL primitives. If you understand APL primitives, it's not so bad.

If you want to see APL expressed as C primitives, something like Nial is pretty good: https://github.com/danlm/QNial7

A History of APL in 50 Functions | May 2018

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Or like Q'Nial:

https://github.com/danlm/QNial7

A History of APL in 50 Functions | Apr 2018

Check out Q'Nial for something like what you are asking for here. It is an array language, but uses more verbose function names:

https://github.com/danlm/QNial7

K programming language (2005) | Mar 2018

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Q'Nial (https://github.com/danlm/QNial7), although it seems pretty much an abandoned language. Searching for it on github yields like, 3 repos. http://www.nial.com/ is the official website, which also seems abandoned.

The Q Language | Dec 2017

Another cousin:

Nial (C, GPL interpreter): https://github.com/danlm/QNial7

The author of Nial, Mike Jenkins, has recently released v7 of Nial. Nial is akin to Q in that many of the operators are keywords rather than symbols. Its computational model is slightly different due to its roots in Trenchard More's array theory.

QNial7 Array Language Announcement | Jul 2017

Clickable: https://github.com/danlm/QNial7