Josh David

APL Consultant

Joined Dyalog Ltd in June 2019.

Based in USA.

Role Summary

Josh primarily works as a consultant to North American clients. He works directly with clients, helping them maintain existing, and create new, applications in APL. He also collaborates internally with the Dyalog Tools Group and works to develop open-source tools for the APL community.

Biography

Josh was introduced to APL during an internship with The Carlisle Group . He continued learning APL and became a grand prize winner in the general computing category of the 2016 APL Problem Solving Competition. Whilst studying for a degree in Computer Science, Josh undertook an internship with a large company as a regular (non-APL) software developer; working as a programmer using mainstream languages made Josh realise how much more fun he had working with APL. This realisation meant that, instead of accepting a traditional Computer Science programmer role when he graduated in 2019, he sought a job as a consultant with Dyalog Ltd. He now enjoys the real-world problems he gets to solve, using APL the whole way.

Statistical Libraries for Dyalog

There is huge demand for statistics in data science, machine learning, and the increase of data-driven decision-making in business. Although data preparation is easy in APL, there is a lack of ready-made code for doing statistics. Simple summaries an...View

October 2023

Dyalog '23

Getting Work Done with APL

What if you want to get real-world tasks done with APL? Josh takes a look at some of the more practical tooling that Dyalog has built on top of the core language, especially ways to ingest data from difference sources. He also explores what a full-st...View

March 2023

APL Seeds '23

Dado (Dyalog APL Development Operations)

Dyalog APL allows you to program at the speed of thought. But wait! Now that you're storing code in text files, you need to learn about source-code management systems and how to come up with an effective workflow in them, how to properly version an a...View

November 2021

Dyalog '21

Easy Cross-Platform GUI Creation

Wouldn't it be nice to have a single function to generate an operational GUI? Josh introduces a utility library that enables the cross-platform creation of simple recurrent GUIs....View

September 2019

Dyalog '19

Young APLers Panel

We hear the stories of four young users who found APL through their different paths. They give their opinions on the learning curve of APL and its future....View

September 2019

Dyalog '19

How I Won the APL Problem Solving Competition – General Computing Category

Joshua David Joshua David of the University of Scranton in the U.S.A. won the General Computing category of the 2016 International APL Problem Solving Competition – here he explains how he achieved this success. After a brief look at phase I, Josh...View

October 2016

Dyalog '16

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