John Daintree

Chief Architect

Based: United Kingdom

Joined Dyalog Ltd: September 1991

Role Summary

John spends most of his time working on user interfaces (the Dyalog Development Environment, .NET, COM, ⎕WC, and so on).

Biography

John joined Dyadic Systems (as it then was) immediately after completing his degree in Computer Aided Chemistry from The University of Surrey. He’d never heard of APL before.

Why Dyalog ’14 was a Shear Delight

Recent versions of Microsoft Windows support touch screens, which of course means that applications can respond to events originating from touches. Microsoft calls these events “gestures”. Dyalog decided to add support for gestures to version 14.1 and so projects were planned, designs were designed, code was coded and, at Dyalog ’14 (#Dyalog14), a demonstration was … Read

October 2014

In: Algorithms, APL Language, Dyalog '14

Creating Shortcuts (Microsoft Windows)

At Dyalog, a developer not only needs access to all of the readily available editions of the interpreter but also to earlier versions that are no longer officially supported. On my Microsoft Windows Desktop I have a folder that contains a shortcut to my developer builds of all these interpreters. I’ve recently suffered a complete … Read

July 2014

In: APL Language, Tips & Tricks, Windows

Team Dyalog

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