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by moonchild 899 days ago
> VM model for APL languages

It's cute—but from my skimming a while ago fairly primitive. We can do much better with less effort using more general mechanisms. (Not a knock—it's a product of it's time—a lot of old compiler tech was not very good and even so remains unsurpassed.)

> statically typed

I in principle espouse a much more nuanced view than this, but in short: just don't.

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> statically typed APL

that’d be a curious case indeed, why not, only it won’t be APL even remotely :)