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BQN and eggs
If you’re like me, you’re also aware of some programming languages out there which use squiggly characters instead of human readable text and you’ve also probably wonder what it is and how it works.
Those weird unicode characters have always caught my eye but still I wasn’t intrigued enough to find out what it is. This year however, curiosity got the best of me.
APL
A quickly found out about APL, a language invited in the 60’s by Kenneth Iverson. It uses a paradigm called array programming which I had never heard of.
Very quickly, I found a couple of resources which helped me learn APL:
I did manage to get the basics down and managed to solve some Advent of Code puzzles as well as some Project Euler.
After a couple of weeks, I realised that I was still struggling with the concept of combinators and how to order of reading the code changes from right-to-left to left-to-right which made it…
