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 […]
The APL Quest Series
It seemed like a normal Friday until mid-afternoon. But on 4 February 2022, I embarked on a journey that, at the time, seemed to stretch impossibly far into the future — a future that wasn’t entirely known yet. In the APL Orchard chat room on Stack Exchange, a dozen APLers, some experts and some newbies, […]
Dyalog ’23 Videos: Week 8 – Celebrate Solstice with the Last of Our Dyalog ’23 Videos
Whether you are celebrating a winter holiday, looking forward to the days getting longer from tomorrow, or enjoying summer south of the equator, we hope you have time to enjoy the final collection of light-hearted presentations from Dyalog ’23. Andy Shiers has overall responsibility for making sure that Dyalog gets correctly built and tested before […]
Dyalog ’23 Videos: Week 7 – Performance and Scaling
Although run-time performance is rarely the most important reason for selecting APL, good performance often becomes important during the lifetime of an application (especially if it is successful and, therefore, has to deal with growing data volumes and numbers of users). Array-oriented programming naturally encourages Subject Matter Experts to use dense and pointer-free structures, which […]
Dyalog ’23 Videos: Week 6 – Tools and Services
An increasing number of APL systems serve business logic as services, in addition to providing a user interface. Some recent APL applications have no user interface at all, and are only available as services. For this reason, Dyalog’s web service framework, Jarvis, features prominently in Brian Becker’s overview of the current state of tool development […]
