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- Wed Aug 04, 2021 5:15 am
- Forum: APL Chat
- Topic: Control Structures
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9234
Re: Control Structures
In 1995 John Scholes and Pete Donnelly visited SunGard Capital Markets in Philadelphia. In the meeting they were told that Dyalog would have to implement Control Structures and that they would have to be identical to APL*2000's (for SunGard to use Dyalog), following which Dyalog implemented the ...
- Mon May 11, 2020 3:09 am
- Forum: Language
- Topic: Zark Example not working
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8345
Re: Zark Example not working
An adverb takes a noun or verb to create a derived verb. So if I understand correctly in 3 0 1∘/ we are creating a derived verb which itself is used with the operator ¨ . Many years ago, in one of an articles I read a long time ago it said that the left operand of / is everything that is to the left ...
- Sun May 10, 2020 4:42 am
- Forum: Language
- Topic: Zark Example not working
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8345
Zark Example not working
I was perusing an old issue of Zark and came across this
Dyalog APL does not produce these results. Has the behavior or definition of / changed over the decades? Is ⎕ML responsible?
⍴3 0 1/2
4
⍴3 0 1/¨2
(empty)
M←2 3 ⍴⍳6
⍴3 0 1/M
2 4
⍴3 0 1/¨M
2 3
Dyalog APL does not produce these results. Has the behavior or definition of / changed over the decades? Is ⎕ML responsible?
- Tue Apr 28, 2020 5:07 am
- Forum: APL Chat
- Topic: Dyalog APL - raison d'etre
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3952
Dyalog APL - raison d'etre
With the Covid-19 lockdown I finally have had some time to catch up on some programming knowledge. It appears that it is no longer sufficient to know Dyalog APL only to create software applications that can be used by a wide audience, for e.g., applications such as Evernote or Tableau on Desktop, or ...
- Tue Jul 17, 2018 3:49 am
- Forum: APL Chat
- Topic: APL Slippers
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6300
- Wed Jan 25, 2017 2:16 pm
- Forum: APL Chat
- Topic: APLer seeking employment
- Replies: 4
- Views: 14328
Re: APLer seeking employment
You ask people and see where you can add value.
- Sat Jan 07, 2017 4:55 am
- Forum: APL Chat
- Topic: APLer seeking employment
- Replies: 4
- Views: 14328
Re: APLer seeking employment
I am an Employer and can provide "a" perspective, my own. Find "somebody" who is doing something worthwhile and write code for them, for free if necessary. There is nothing better to sell yourself than have your code be a running application serving a purpose and providing a value to society. If the ...
- Mon Oct 19, 2015 5:29 am
- Forum: Chat
- Topic: If only they would listen
- Replies: 2
- Views: 13222
Re: If only they would listen
That was 6 years ago. By now the patient is dead and cremated.
- Sat Sep 26, 2015 5:45 am
- Forum: Chat
- Topic: Retina MacBook with DyalogAPL/W
- Replies: 4
- Views: 19953
- Fri Sep 25, 2015 7:30 pm
- Forum: Language
- Topic: JSON sample not working
- Replies: 1
- Views: 10267
JSON sample not working
I started looking at the JSON I-beams and my very first sample did not work. Here it is A {"first_name" : "Neeraj", "last_name" : "Gupta", "stocks" : [ {"S1":"IBM"}, {"S2":"MSFT"} ] } j←0 (7159⌶) A j.stocks.⎕nl 2 S1 S2 j.stocks.S1 VALUE ERROR j.stocks.S1 ∧