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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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What was Ken Iverson’s favourite APL expression? I don’t know that he had one and if he had I don’t know what it was, but if I have to guess …… Read
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In one man’s humble opinion, reduction (⌿) is the Queen of Operators. Each (¨) comes a close second, but doesn’t get the cigar because each can… Read
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The winners of the 2014 APL Problem Solving Competition were recognized at the Dyalog ’14 user meeting and had a chance to share their competition… Read
Abstract grid of coloured squares with teal, amber and gold bokeh lights, evoking a comparison matrix and a sense of acceleration.
The first e-mail of the work week came from Nicolas Delcros. He wondered whether anything clever can be done with ∘.≡ on enclosed character strings. I… Read
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Operator trace from dfns.dws is a simple and low-tech tool for displaying intermediate results of functions, during the evaluation of an expression. For… Read
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: My thanks to Andy Shiers for simplifying the examples Visitors to APL from other languages are sometimes a bit sniffy about our use of numbers… Read
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