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I'm wondering why there's no table-based computer language, is there? We have string-based, functional, list-based, object-based. Why not one where conditionals, even arithmetic is a table lookup? Could execute terrifically fast if tables were small enough to fit into memory.


It's not quite table-based, but APL [0] uses multidimensional arrays as it's main datatype.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)




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