APL is an interesting language in that a simple hello world program can be done thus:
'HELLO WORLD'
The above code will cause the typed text within quotes to appear on the terminal. No variables are needed, or print statements. Of course, if you want/need to store it, then:
a<-'HELLO WORLD' a
Typing 'a' causes a's value to be printed.
APL is generally a loopless language. In general, loops like those in other HLLs such as Fortran or
C (especially those whose purpose are to step through each item of a list, vector, array, etc.)
aren't needed.
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