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Geoffrey Streeter was one of the initial five employees of Dyalog Ltd. and, with John Scholes and David Crossley, developed the first version of Dyalog APL. He continued work in implementation and related projects at Dyalog for over 40 years before retiring in 2023. More about Geoff

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I attended Phil Goacher’s funeral yesterday. He probably had no idea of just how much he would influence the development of APL. I first met Phil at W S Atkins which is a large UK engineering consultancy. There was a sub unit called Atkins Computing which provided internal computing support to the engineers and, crucially, … Read
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 discussion still surfaces, with John taking the side that they don’t and me taking the side that they do. Essentially, John would argue that after A←2, … Read

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