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2024-04-06To The ProgrammerA combinator is a kind of function. Specifically, it’s a function that applies its arguments—and only its arguments—to each other in a particular shape and order. The number of possible shapes is of course infinite; but in practice a few fairly simple shapes crop up more often than others,...

It has been said that the most popular programming language in the world is the spreadsheet (and in particular these days, Excel). There is a valid argument that the spreadsheet embodies an array programming model, making Excel the most popular array programming language in the world. As the author of an array progr...