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APL is better, obviously. There are even dozens of textbooks for teaching math with its notation.


I was going to mention APL, then decided to scroll through the discussion.


Except there is no APL for CUDA.

I agree array languages would be great use for GPGPU, however they seem mostly to be interpreter based implementations.


> interpreter based

Not at all. Co-dfns came out ~5 years ago. Here's a discussion including the author: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/k258e...

Here's an article about many others: https://codereport.github.io/GPUArrayLanguages/ including interviews with some of their makers.


APL has its own bag of surprises.




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