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- The Ugly Duckling
- PCs made things slower. More available, and slower. That was the challenge.
- APL made serious money
- Dyadic Systems Limited + Zilog = Dyalog
- Happy accident at the near portmanteau of dialog
- Interpreter implementation
- By committee an spec: 28 man months
- By free team making their own decisions: 14 man months
- “subtle and profound differences”
- Our favorite kind! 😊
- Nested-array schism decision
- single page marketing strategy, five page technical guide
- Regarding Dyalog sales in the educational market
- “most university computer departments regarded APL as some kind of devil worship”
- “like ducks to water”
- “moving all in”
- Runtime licenses are important once you sell everyone your product
- Graphics demo duck
- “we had a dress code. When we became Dyalog, we became scruffy”
- Helpful read to get a sense of the APL landscape as it exists today
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