John was working on implementing negative right arguments to ⎕DL (the delay function in all APL implementations). As soon as that is sorted, we expect him to reappear. John once did a live demo where a negative number…
That is true, but OTOH I maintain that - in absolute terms - there are more difficult problems that people are struggling to solve using computers today than there were in 1970.
> most people vastly prefer easy and DWIM over simple and precise Most people also vastly prefer not having to work on difficult problems. Iverson was clearly trying to provide a notation that would help the (admittedly…
Thanks for your interest in the future of Dyalog! You are absolutely right that 2019 marks a kind of watershed moment for Dyalog. The original two-man development team who built version 1.0 of the interpreter (released…
APL has historically had relatively high market penetration in Scandinavia and Japan. Dyalog is a British company but for the last decade there has been significant Danish and Italian involvement in the form of major…
It is mostly a question of inertia; we've been busy making sure that our customers have what they need, and continue to be willing and able to fund our R&D efforts, since 1983. We agree it is time to open things up a…
As of June 30th, when Dyalog v15.0 was released, Personal/Non-Commercial licenses are free of charge for 64-bit Windows, Linux and OS/X - and on the Raspberry Pi. We are in the process of streamlining the registration…
John was working on implementing negative right arguments to ⎕DL (the delay function in all APL implementations). As soon as that is sorted, we expect him to reappear. John once did a live demo where a negative number…
That is true, but OTOH I maintain that - in absolute terms - there are more difficult problems that people are struggling to solve using computers today than there were in 1970.
> most people vastly prefer easy and DWIM over simple and precise Most people also vastly prefer not having to work on difficult problems. Iverson was clearly trying to provide a notation that would help the (admittedly…
Thanks for your interest in the future of Dyalog! You are absolutely right that 2019 marks a kind of watershed moment for Dyalog. The original two-man development team who built version 1.0 of the interpreter (released…
APL has historically had relatively high market penetration in Scandinavia and Japan. Dyalog is a British company but for the last decade there has been significant Danish and Italian involvement in the form of major…
It is mostly a question of inertia; we've been busy making sure that our customers have what they need, and continue to be willing and able to fund our R&D efforts, since 1983. We agree it is time to open things up a…
As of June 30th, when Dyalog v15.0 was released, Personal/Non-Commercial licenses are free of charge for 64-bit Windows, Linux and OS/X - and on the Raspberry Pi. We are in the process of streamlining the registration…