Dyalog Ltd's CEO opens the user meeting and offers some perspective from her experience, before Richard talks about the APL community and the resources available to those just getting started.

Rodrigo showcases some of the interesting features and quirks of APL, like its affinity for mathematics, its ability to deal with large data sets, and its array-oriented programming style. After this session you should have a general idea of APL's capabilities and the potential it offers you, and hopefully you'll feel an urge to learn some more – either because you got hooked (like Rodrigo did!) or simply because you want to learn how to think in an array-oriented way, which is very relevant in many situations today, for example, when working with GPUs.