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The Dyalog Blog

270 blog posts in 35 categories covering APL insights, company news and events, innovative projects, and more.

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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
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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
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APL is sometimes criticised because expressions that include names cannot, in general, be parsed without knowing whether the names represent functions or… Read
Two abstract human-like figures seated across from each other in a minimalist room, with glowing geometric symbols floating upward between them, symbolising a dialogue about APL concepts.
A discussion between Nicolas Delcros and Roger Hui Nicolas, Prologue: From a language point of view, thanks to Ken Iverson, it is obvious that you want grade… Read
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Going back a long way when John Scholes and I were writing version 0 of Dyalog there was a big discussion about whether functions knew their own names. This… Read
Concluding Morten and Gitte’s whistlestop tour round Europe before heading to the US (see parts 1 and 2) On Saturday afternoon we passed through… Read
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