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I absolutely agree with you about the introduction of new symbols. Most glyphs have been there for decades now, and there is a high barrier to introduce new ones. There are Dyalog developers who experiment with new primitives that use new glyphs, and it takes years until they are actually introduced into the language, if ever.

Very clever people have been working in array languages for more than 60 years, and there is a set of around 20-30 primitives that all of them agree are worth to have. Depending on the array language of choice, there are another 10-40 primitives more. Symbols have double use (monadic and dyadic), so that makes a total of 20-40 symbols to learn, and you already know many of those (+-×÷=<>, and probably a few more).

To each his own indeed. But if you haven't, I would suggest you to give it a try. It makes much more sense once you start writing code.



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