• programming language APL is distinctive in being symbolic rather than lexical: its primitives are denoted by symbols, not words. These symbols were originally...
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  • programming language APL uses a number of symbols, rather than words from natural language, to identify operations, similarly to mathematical symbols. Prior to the...
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    contains APL source code. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of APL symbols. APL (named after...
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  • and technology) List of APL functions Unicode block Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols (Unicode block) List of Unicode characters Letterlike Symbols Mathematical...
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    of Perl code that gives a syntax error depending on the value of random variable "An Introduction to Common Lisp Macros". Apl.jhu.edu. 1996-02-08. Archived...
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    terminals with APL keyboards, supporting the APL syntax and symbols. While floating-point arithmetic has long been part of computing history, and was present...
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  • At sign (redirect from At symbol)
    Dyalog APL, @ is used as a functional way to modify or replace data at specific locations in an array. In the ASP.NET MVC Razor template markup syntax, the...
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  • ISO-IR-68 (category APL programming language family)
    calls it Code page 371. It is one of several APL code pages used for the syntax and symbols used by the APL programming language. The encoding intends that...
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  • Number sign (redirect from Hash symbol)
    known as "hashtags", and from that, the symbol itself is sometimes called a hashtag. The symbol is distinguished from similar symbols by its combination...
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    Ampersand (redirect from And symbol)
    marks, boxes, or other symbols. The ampersand, also known as the and sign, is the logogram &, representing the conjunction "and". It originated as a ligature...
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  • example 1225 and 1232 – the expression "1225×1232" means "no earlier than 1225 and no later than 1232". A monadic × symbol is used by the APL programming...
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  • K (programming language) (category APL programming language family)
    variant of APL and contains elements of Scheme. Advocates of the language emphasize its speed, facility in handling arrays, and expressive syntax. Before...
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  • In APL the symbol is called "right tack" and represents the ambivalent right identity function where both X⊢Y and ⊢Y are Y. The reversed symbol "⊣" is...
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    the APL programming language support the direct function syntax where the left (optional) and right arguments are denoted by the letters alpha and omega...
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    December 2008, with some new semantics and changed syntax. Several releases in the Python 3.x series have added new syntax to the language; a few releases in...
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  • A+ (programming language) (category APL programming language family)
    the APL character set. It lacks some of the perceived complexities of A+, such as the existence of statements and two different modes of syntax. A+ provides...
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  • Question mark (category Typographical symbols)
    in Kotlin, a type followed by ? is nullable and functions similar to option chaining are supported. In APL, ? generates random numbers or a random subset...
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  • Vertical bar (redirect from Pipe symbol)
    or logical or. Specifically, in C and other languages following C syntax conventions, such as C++, Perl, Java and C#, a | b denotes a bitwise or; whereas...
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  • Tilde (redirect from Tilde symbol)
    diacritics (and the underscore) were quickly reused by software as additional syntax, basically becoming new types of syntactic symbols that a programming...
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  • language, which supports array-programming syntax. A := A + B; APL uses single character Unicode symbols with no syntactic sugar. A ← A + B This operation...
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  • Q (programming language from Kx Systems) (category APL programming language family)
    for kdb+, a disk based and in-memory, column-based database. Kdb+ is based on the language k, a terse variant of the language APL. Q is a thin wrapper around...
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    User-defined data types allow for aliasing a data type specifier Syntax for array definition and access is via square bracket notation, for example month[11]...
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    inheritance less verbose and error-prone, and type annotations enabled IntelliSense and improved tooling. TypeScript adds the following syntax extensions to JavaScript:...
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  • with a symbol that resembled the greater-than sign, in both backwards and forwards forms. Johnson says it is likely Harriot developed the two symbols from...
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  • compares the syntax of many notable programming languages. Programming language expressions can be broadly classified into four syntax structures: prefix...
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  • Pseudocode (section Syntax)
    publications to document algorithms and in planning of software and other algorithms. No broad standard for pseudocode syntax exists, as a program in pseudocode...
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  • of ASCII is smaller than APL's specialized set of symbols, . (dot) and : (colon) characters are used to inflect ASCII symbols, effectively interpreting...
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    visual relationships between symbols to specify a program. The syntax of a language describes the possible combinations of symbols that form a syntactically...
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  • Kenneth E. Iverson (category Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences alumni)
    typography, linearization, syntax, and function definition described in APL\360 History, The Design of APL, and The Evolution of APL. Two treatises from this...
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  • Parsing (redirect from Syntax analysis)
    Parsing, syntax analysis, or syntactic analysis is a process of analyzing a string of symbols, either in natural language, computer languages or data structures...
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