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Prior to joining Dyalog Ltd, Fiona had twelve years of technical authoring experience but a programming background limited to Pascal and FORTRAN. She wishes she’d known about APL and Dyalog earlier in her academic life. More about Fiona

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The 2016 Year Game

Our 2016 Year Game was launched in January 2016 and ran until the end of the year. The idea was simple – to find APL expressions involving exactly the digits 2 0 1 6 in that order to equal the numbers 0 to 100 using the fewest characters possible. The minimum number of characters for … Read

Jan 2017
in Recreational

What’s Your Favourite Beautiful Squiggle?

Roger’s post speculating on Ken Iverson’s favourite APL expression reminded me that one of the delegates at Dyalog ’14 conducted a quick survey to find the most popular primitive (thanks to Alex Weiner for taking the initiative here!). His findings are reproduced below: 9 votes: ⍴ 8 votes: ⍳ 6 votes: ⍨ 4 votes: ⍠ … Read