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267 blog posts in 34 categories covering APL insights, company news and events, innovative projects, and more.

I started composing a set of APL exercises in response to a query from a new APL enthusiast who attended Morten’s presentation at Functional Conf,… Read
I’ve taken to commenting the closing brace of my inner dfns with a home-grown type notation pinched from the Functional Programming community: dref←{… Read
Part I of this post was concerned with the development speed and execution speed of magic functions and should be read before this post. Benefitting from… Read
A magic function is an APL-coded (dfn) computation in the C source of the interpreter. For example, some cases of ∧.= are coded as… Read
This post contains comments to John Scholes’ post on name colouring; please continue to post any further comments with the original post. This is a very… Read
APL is sometimes criticised because expressions that include names cannot, in general, be parsed without knowing whether the names represent functions or… Read
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