Tag: APL

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bug-apl Mailing List Everything (not only bugs) related to GNU APL

To see the collection of prior posting to the list, visit the bug-apl archives.

Paper here.

Using array dimensions as control structures?

Paper here.

• This is enough to leave you with a system that you can easily code in, feels familiar, and gives you pop up help for learning APL

Continue reading “User Guide Notes for @dyalogapl APL on OS X”

• These are the steps that I took to get Dyalog up and running on an OS X 10.11 box for my first time ever
• Dyalog is easy to set up on OS X
• These notes are the shortest specific steps that I found to get Dyalog up and running
• My goal is to evaluate ⍳5 using my laptop keyboard
• My notes follow

Continue reading “Getting Started with @dyalogapl APL on OS X for the Truly Impatient”

“You need this programming language…”

… at least, that’s what they tell you.

Continue reading “Notation as a tool of thought”

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