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by ruste 1175 days ago
The advantage of single character concatenated symbols is that it allows your brain to group them rather than forcing you to read them separately. This means you almost unconsciously build up a bunch of set of instantly recognizable "chunks" of symbols that represent concepts you're familiar with. Each of these chunks can represent the equivalent of a huge amount of code in another language.
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> bunch of set of instantly recognizable "chunks"

Indeed! Much of APL programming is using idioms (≠⊆⊢ for example as split on delimiters)

https://aplcart.info has a good selection too