Episode 197: 🇬🇧 Algorithms & Tersity with Aaron Hsu

In this episode, Conor and Aaron Hsu record from the Eagle Pub in Cambridge, UK and chat about the importance of algorithms and tersity in programming languages.

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About the Guest

Aaron Hsu is the implementor of Co-dfns and an advocate for a terse and minimal array programming style. Hsu has a background in academic functional programming, and was primarily a Scheme programmer for ten years before learning APL. He was introduced to APL by Morten Kromberg while working on a GPU-hosted compiler, and switched to Dyalog APL for the project, which is now Co-dfns.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2024-08-21
Date Released: 2024-08-30

• ArrayCast Episode 19: Aaron Hsu
• Co-dfns
• The Eagle Pub, Cambridge
• Living The Loopless Life: Techniques For Removing Explicit Loops And Recursion by Aaron Hsu
• The Nano-parsing Architecture: Sane And Portable Parsing For Perverse Environments by Aaron Hsu
• Algorithms as a Tool of Thought // Conor Hoekstra // APL Seeds '21

Intro Song Info

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