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

2022 Conference Edition Part 3a – Future(s)

In the third part of this series, John explores some ideas for asynchronous programming in Dyalog. Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd4HR_Ld-tQ Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2at0Sa8v3E Part 3b: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkqds...View

October 2022

Dyalog '22

2022 Conference Edition Part 3b – Future(s)

In the final part of this series, John explores some ideas for asynchronous programming in Dyalog. Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd4HR_Ld-tQ Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2at0Sa8v3E Part 3a: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P18Z3...View

October 2022

Dyalog '22

2022 Conference Edition Part 1 – Past

John has been noodling with some interesting things. In the first part of this series, he demonstrates some improvements to Dyalog's Session log. Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2at0Sa8v3E Part 3a: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P18Z3ilH37...View

October 2022

Dyalog '22

2022 Conference Edition Part 2 – Present

Frustrated by function trains? Stymied by single line dfns? In the second part of this series, John demonstrates some new features that will take away some of your pain. Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd4HR_Ld-tQ Part 3a: https://www.youtub...View

October 2022

Dyalog '22

Scripting in Dyalog v18.2

Dyalog v18.2 supports the use of APL as a scripting language, a feature that John previewed in a talk at Dyalog '20. This year, John shows us what actually made it into the product, and revisits the extended multi-line session input that makes script...View

November 2021

Dyalog '21

Multi-line Input and Scripting

John demonstrates extensions to the session that improve the interactive development of code and multi-line expressions. These extensions lead to the use of APL as a scripting language from operating command prompts....View

November 2020

Dyalog '20

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