How Many APL Hackers -- Does It Take To Screw In A Light Bulb?

How Many APL Hackers -- Does It Take To Screw In A Light Bulb?

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-- How many
APL hackers
-- does it take to screw in a light bulb?
None. There's a primitive for that.
Note: I don't do APL but I think a primitive is a procedure
that is included as a part of the language. You don't have to
write code ("hack") to do it.

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