BQN: What Is a Primitive?

brudgers · 2026-05-31T17:50:10 1780249810

For context, BQN is "an APL for your flying saucer."

https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/index.html

And APL is a programming language.

Literally.

pauldirac137 · 2026-06-02T21:31:19 1780435879

Marshall was a panelist on the ArrayCast podcast (https://www.arraycast.com/) which discusses all things relating to array languages. He's sadly missed :(

mattwiese · 2026-06-02T23:08:29 1780441709

ArrayCast is a great podcast and I've enjoyed it quite a lot since it started. Listening to people talk about APL/K/J/BQN/etc is a great way to learn about the array languages. Maybe it's just me but hearing people use the glyphs in conversation went a long way to building intuition with how to think in arrays, so to speak.

Wherever you are in cyberspace: hi Marshall!!