| 2 Jun 2023 |
 Brian E#0926 | i'm 17 :D | 16:25:07 |
 Prof. Torsten Grust | I'm 54. | 16:25:18 |
 loke | In reply to @_discord_671689100331319316:t2bot.io
i'm 17 :D I refuse to believe that. | 16:25:20 |
| Brian E#0926 | :o why? | 16:25:30 |
| loke | That's the age of my eldest child. | 16:25:33 |
| Brian E#0926 | :) | 16:25:38 |
| Prof. Torsten Grust | 17 is the age of my youngest child. | 16:25:59 |
| Brian E#0926 | i am a child :D | 16:26:06 |
 Patrock | youngest APL user: | 16:44:00 |
| loke | Patrock: you are younger than brian? | 16:50:58 |
| Patrock | no | 17:07:00 |
| Brian E#0926 | am i really the youngest here?! | 20:24:41 |
 South | rak is a close second | 20:34:08 |
 TonyC | No disadvantage to being young here. We're pretty much a harmless bunch.
... Although if some old greybeard tries to introduce you to a phlebotomist that's a friend of Peter Thiel's ... well | 20:46:29 |
 DiscoDoug | Edged me out by a hair. I was born in 1969. | 22:18:53 |
| DiscoDoug | Wait, does this mean you folks can’t talk about TikTok’s or whatever? ;) | 22:20:21 |
 ash; | I'm 18 too | 22:22:24 |
| ash; | not that active though | 22:22:34 |
| DiscoDoug | Pretty funny that APL is over 50 years old and the assumption is that people are under 25. | 22:22:52 |
| Brian E#0926 | hm i did not get that refrence | 22:52:35 |
| DiscoDoug | The TikTok one? Mostly nonsense. The 25 number is from Patrock’s post. | 23:00:54 |
 coltim | like the tick, tick, tock of the stately clock... | 23:06:44 |
| Brian E#0926 | now that reference i do get | 23:36:24 |
| South | being young in the array lang community is not so bad | 23:39:56 |
| South | i like reading the stories you old bastards have to give | 23:40:46 |
| South | for example, i found this email in the J forums from Ed Gottsman particularly enlightening to read https://pastebin.com/fN5xtYT7. | 23:43:14 |
| 3 Jun 2023 |
 rak1507#1964 | The APL stories and stuff are great, it's like a glimpse into an alternative reality, like "here's what could have been" | 00:46:59 |
 chrispsn | What is different between today's reality and the reality offered by anecdotes like that? Just the lack of adoption of APL-like syntax? | 00:55:08 |
| rak1507#1964 | Not just the lack of adoption of array langs but also a cultural shift | 00:57:12 |
| rak1507#1964 | Programming becoming more, corporatised I guess | 00:58:04 |
