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Fastidious Elegance

My name is Aaron Hsu, and I'm a computer scientist. I'm changing the way people look at computing and programming languages, what they can do with them, and how they do it.

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Knuth on APL

Donald Knuth had this to say in an interview a while back: APL is for people who have problems to solve and don't care too much about efficiency; they want a nice elegant way to state the solution to their problem, but the solution that they come up with is

apl knuth performance problem-specification system-programming unix
6 years ago