BQN: Difference between revisions

The name "BQN" was originated as a forward iteration of the letters of APL, and "happens to match the capitals in 'Big Questions Notation'"<ref>[https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/#what-kind-of-name-is-bqn]</ref>.

[[Marshall Lochbaum]] recounts, "I obtained 'BQN' by moving each letter in 'APL' forward by one in the alphabet. I'd come up with the backronym 'Big Questions Notation' by the time I realized N doesn't come after L."<ref>[https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/54753804#54753804]</ref> Lochbaum commented further on this in Episode 7 of the Array Cast], saying, "...the way I came up with the name BQN was I thought, ... alright, I'm working on this next APL. What do I call [it?] ... I took took APL and I moved it forward and I got BQN. And I said, well, BQN, that sounds pretty good... [B]ig Questions Notation is what I ended up with. I like it 'cause it suggests that not only you're solving big questions, but you have big questions about the notation, so it's a little tongue in cheek. And I said also, you can pronounce it like bacon, so there's even a food pun like Apple. And after some half hour or an hour of thinking about this, I realized that the letter that comes after L is M, not N. I think it would be much more logical for N to come first, because it's the letter with two humps. BQM is a horrible, horrible name, and so I stuck with BQN." <ref>[https://www.arraycast.com/episode-7-transcript]in response to a question starting at the 11:29 mark</ref>