• 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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    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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  • 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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    In computer science, the syntax of a computer language is the rules that define the combinations of symbols that are considered to be correctly structured...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • language syntax (format) for over 50 computer programming languages. Programming language expressions can be broadly classified into four syntax structures:...
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  • structuring the other symbols that occur in a formula. As formulas are entirely constituted with symbols of various types, many symbols are needed for expressing...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    APL language, long before it) uses many non-ASCII symbols, the specification includes suggestions for rendering the Z notation symbols in ASCII and in...
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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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    execution speed and improved error reporting. Python 3.12 adds syntax (and in fact every Python since at least 3.5 adds some syntax) to the language...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Parsing (redirect from Syntax analysis)
    Parsing, syntax analysis, or syntactic analysis is the process of analyzing a string of symbols, either in natural language, computer languages or data...
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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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  • At sign (redirect from At symbol)
    from the original on 2020-05-08. Retrieved 2020-04-30. "syntax - What does the "at" (@) symbol do in Python?". Stack Overflow. Archived from the original...
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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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  • infix or postfix, and the syntax of an expression involving an operator depends on its arity (number of operands), precedence, and (if applicable), associativity...
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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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  • to facilitate tooling and IDE support. TypeScript adds support for features such as classes, modules, and an arrow function syntax as defined in the ECMAScript...
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  • to" symbol, x ↦ M. Compare to the JavaScript syntax of x => M. Anonymous functions can be used for containing functionality that need not be named and possibly...
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    syntax (form) and semantics (meaning), usually defined by a formal language. Languages usually provide features such as a type system, variables and mechanisms...
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