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AboutMe←,⊂'Tell us a bit about yourself'
⍝ AboutMe,←⊂'' ⍝ copy, uncomment, and edit this line if you need more space
Reaction←,⊂'Please share your thoughts about the 2020 competition'
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AboutMe←,⊂'I am a Data Scientist. Even if I do not use APL in my day job (except'
AboutMe,←⊂'if you count Numpy), I dabbled in it for a few years for little'
AboutMe,←⊂'one-liners. I picked up APL because I love learning new languages, and'
AboutMe,←⊂'APL is a significantly different from any paradigm I tried before.'
Reaction←,⊂'The challenges were super fun! This is by far the largest amount of'
Reaction,←⊂'code in APL that I have written. In the process, I discovered many'
Reaction,←⊂'aspects of APL I enjoy (the interactivity, natural data'
Reaction,←⊂'manipulation). The challenges about data manipulation were great'
Reaction,←⊂'(e.g. UPC). The challenges with complex computations (e.g. rates of'
Reaction,←⊂'return) were excellent for learning APL and complex functions and'
Reaction,←⊂'operators. The most difficult (or boring) part was everything related'
Reaction,←⊂'to parsing and IO. Reading a file, interacting with the web, well,'
Reaction,←⊂'it is not something APL was designed for, and you feel like fighting'
Reaction,←⊂'the system.'
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