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User Guide Notes for @dyalogapl APL on OS X

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

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Getting Started with @dyalogapl APL on OS X for the Truly Impatient

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

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Notation as a tool of thought

“You need this programming language…”

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

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Håkan Kjellerstrand's APL Page

http://hakank.org/apl/

Dyalog at 25

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

APL on an iPad

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