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06 November 2021

Maybe I remember that

John D. Cook figures out that the APL comment symbol ⍝ is pronounced "lamp,"
giving light to the poor soul mentally parsing code.
It does sorta look like a lamp.
Posted by David Gorsline at 16:52
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