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In my experience, existing programmers struggle the most in learning APL because they struggle to internalize the Array Model and how to talk about things as Arrays. The results ar…

I'll comment a bit here. If you look into prior research, there are a number of papers on sparse representations in APL along with accompanying code in the literature. That's a goo…

Just a comment about the intellisense stuff. Dyalog's IDE(s) do provide name completion for methods, functions, variables, objects, and namespace bindings. You don't get any auto-c…

Rest assured that I haven't given up on the textbook / tutorial approach just yet, but I might have to "invent" my own publication technology to get the "book" that I want.

Thanks for the thoughts. While I am sympathetic to your position (and I don't necessarily disagree), I'm not sure that the education problem with APL is strictly technical in natur…

NARS2000 is always doing some interesting stuff. Morten has said before that if he had to recommend an open-source APL, it would be NARS2000.

Except that you do. Python is a form of OOP/Iterative programming, involves memory allocation, pointers, references, and the like. Pandas requires the skilled application of a gene…

I've updated the Getting Started page to include a link to the Dyalog APL download page. APL is extremely easy to install now for most platforms. Thanks to Nix users at our Worksho…

It's really no more difficult than learning recursion, pointers, memory allocation, type theory, functional programming, iterative programming, OOP, or any other of the myriad tech…

Dyalog APL is also free (as in beer) and easy to install now that distribution has been streamlined. While I am biased, I consider Dyalog APL to be the premier APL interpreter and …

Dyalog recently changed its distribution policies and licensing approaches to the APL interpreter, so it's easier than ever to get started on any platform. I would encourage you to…

I hesitate to call J the successor to APL. I would currently say that J was/is a step within the evolution of array languages, but many of the concepts of J are being actively inte…

Actually, there is movement in this general direction. My Thesis is now out and available publicly in its final version and should be indexed in the databases shortly entitled "A d…

Oh, and yes, a few times I did in fact explore programming in Word as well. Just as an example: https://github.com/Co-dfns/Co-dfns/tree/13e2624d6f5897a0f0c9... I did also explore m…

I clarify this more above, but one of the reasons you don't see changes to that file is that much of the work of the repository was working on code that was deleted in favor of tha…

Here's a rendered version of that document at some point in time: https://1drv.ms/b/s!AvaVLzoc2_8MiNdqkVZ1ScoRjYeOZQ?e=ApQSFw I notice that my discussion about the churning on the …

You may want to check out the Co-dfns compiler, which is proof positive that APL is a terrific language for doing things like tree manipulations, which is the traditional domain of…

You mean Dyalog APL? It already regularly outperforms normal, handwritten C code. It also has support for distributed computing, multi-threading, and the Co-dfns compiler can be us…

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If that's something of interest to you, get in touch with me via email and we can see if we can't get Co-dfns supporting what you need to make it a reality! There are a number of t…

Yes.

What's really interesting about the above is that it is "seeded" with a random number. :-)

In some limited, restricted cases, yes.

And here's a slightly more sophisticated version that mimics the animation you see on the Matrix: T←41 80⍴' ' )ed T {⎕DL÷16⊣T∘←⎕AV[156+?80⍴54]⍪1↓(-0=?80⍴5)⊖T}⍣≡⊢0 In your Dyalog AP…