Episode 197: 🇬🇧 Algorithms & Tersity with Aaron Hsu

ADSP: Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs

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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