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by RodgerTheGreat 1801 days ago
The only real disadvantage is finding yourself annoyed by obvious absences in the standard libraries of every non-APL-family language you come across.

"ugh why can't this sort() just give me a grade instead?"

"why does this provide reduce(), but no scan?"

"this would be so much cleaner if I had transpose, or even just laminate..."