Dyalog ’24 Videos: Week 6 – Remembering the “Old”, Welcoming the “New”
The main theme this week is remembering how we got here – and welcoming a new generation of APL users. There are three talks and a panel discussion looking back on careers spent working on or with APL, and a final panel discussion with members of the new generation, which will hopefully wipe away some […]
Dyalog ’24 Videos: Week 5 – Best Practices
Most of the recordings that we are releasing in week 5 concern “best practices” for the use of APL in large or complex systems. Many of these are mentioned in the invited keynote Dyalog APL in the Biggest Data Centres at the Heart of the Investment Management Industry by Oliver Lanz from the product development […]
Dyalog ’24 Videos: Week 4 – Migrating APL Code, and New GUI Frameworks
The presentations released this week are about APL applications on the move. Some applications are moving from one APL implementation to another, for example from APL2 or APL+Win to Dyalog APL. Others are moving from one platform to another, for example from a mainframe or the Microsoft Windows desktop to Linux in docker containers in […]
Dyalog ’24 Videos: Week 3 – The APL Forge, Education, and Data Science
The recordings released this week focus on activities related to attracting new users to APL. For many years, the APL Problem Solving Competition was a cornerstone of our efforts to promote APL to a new generation of potential users. This year, we introduced the APL Forge, where prizes are awarded for original work done in […]
Dyalog ’24 Videos: Week 2 – New Functionality
The recordings released this week focus on active development projects at Dyalog Ltd. The first three presentations describe features that are expected to be in the next version of Dyalog. In Setting and Getting Variable Values Mk II, Adám Brudzewsky describes a set of new system functions for setting and getting variables’ values using arrays. […]
Dyalog ’24 Videos: Week 1 – Welcome to the Dyalog ’24 Presentations!
We’ve finished processing the first recordings of the presentations given at Dyalog’24 in Glasgow. The first four are now available to watch, and you can look forward to five or six new recordings each week until the end of November. As usual, the Dyalog user meeting opened with presentations by the CEO and CTO, who […]