Category: Article

http://hakank.org/apl/

• URL
• 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

Via comp.lang.apl:

I posted results of experimental work to get a small, but production-grade APL
on my iPad. But I did not provide full details. Apologies for that. Explicit
details are now offered at the website:  http://www.gemesyscanada.com

A 1975 screencast about APL. Delightful.

Computers and phones didn’t always have screens.

The Wikipedia Page on APL is fascinating.

Here begins APL!

To have attended this discussion!

Delightful insights into the minds behind this gem.