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Lobsters<p>apl87 <a href="https://lobste.rs/s/oj22jk" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">lobste.rs/s/oj22jk</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/apl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apl</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/compilers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compilers</span></a><br><a href="https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APL87.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">jsoftware.com/papers/APL87.htm</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
𝚛𝚊𝚝<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY2WYXOdXoM" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=FY2WYXOdXo</span><span class="invisible">M</span></a><br><a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/sapf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sapf</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/sound" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sound</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/supercollider" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>supercollider</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/apl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apl</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/forth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>forth</span></a></p>
Dyalog<p>It's the final week to enter your submission to the APL Forge – the deadline is Monday 23 June 2024 at 12:00 UTC. This annual competition enhances awareness and usage of APL in the community at large by challenging participants to create innovative open-source libraries and commercial applications using Dyalog APL. For more information and to enter, see <a href="https://forge.dyalog.com" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">forge.dyalog.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aplforge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aplforge</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/apl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apl</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dyalog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dyalog</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a></p>
Dyalog<p>Congratulations Freddie de Sibert, Or Toledano, and Sumadithya Sreenivasa, winners of the 2025.1 round of the APL Challenge (our quarterly event aimed at newcomers to APL)! See <a href="https://www.dyalog.com/apl-challenge.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">dyalog.com/apl-challenge.htm</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> for more information. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aplchallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aplchallenge</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/apl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apl</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dyalog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dyalog</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/learnapl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>learnapl</span></a></p>
rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually<p>I’ve cycled back to being obsessed with BQN (the absolutely gorgeous array language with a fascinating implementation).</p><p>(And also Elm for some reason. I don’t even like web development, I just find Elm very clean.)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.well.com/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.well.com/tags/apl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apl</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.well.com/tags/programmingLanguages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programmingLanguages</span></a></p>
Dyalog<p>The 2025.2 round of the APL Challenge is live! This quarterly competition is open to everyone but is aimed at newcomers to APL. For more information and to enter, see <a href="https://challenge.dyalog.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">challenge.dyalog.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/APLChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>APLChallenge</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/APL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>APL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dyalog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dyalog</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LearnAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LearnAPL</span></a></p>
Dyalog<p>On this day in 1983, at the APL83 conference in Washington D.C., the world was introduced to Dyalog v1.0! </p><p>Today we celebrate Dyalog reaching the milestone age that is the ultimate answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything! </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dyalog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dyalog</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/APL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>APL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DontPanic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DontPanic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ArrayProgramming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArrayProgramming</span></a></p>
Dyalog<p>After a large community effort, Code Golf (<a href="https://code.golf/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">code.golf/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>) now supports unrestricted execution and answer checking for their growing list of problems in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/APL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>APL</span></a> (Dyalog APL). APL is listed in the "experimental" section of the supported languages list – once a sufficient number of people have submitted solutions, it will move to the main list of languages and get a leaderboard. Please help APL achieve this by exploring the site and submitting APL solutions. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dyalog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dyalog</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DyalogAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DyalogAPL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CodeGolf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CodeGolf</span></a></p>
Jonathan Carroll<p>My first 14 days of <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AdventOfCode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AdventOfCode</span></a> this year - some days have been updated!</p><p> 1: :rstats: APL :bash: :haskell: <br> 2: :rstats: :julia: :haskell: <br> 3: :rstats: :ruby: Uiua :bash:<br> 4: :rstats: APL<br> 5: :rstats: :julia: :python: :haskell: <br> 6: :rstats: :julia: <br> 7: :rstats: :haskell:<br> 8: :rstats: APL<br> 9: :rstats: :rust: <br>10: :rstats: APL<br>11: :rstats: :python: :haskell: <br>12: :rstats: <br>13: :rstats: APL<br>14: :rstats: </p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rstats</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/apl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apl</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/haskell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>haskell</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/julialang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>julialang</span></a> plus various others</p>
IT News<p>Ampere WS-1: The Other APL Portable Computer - When thinking of home computers and their portable kin it’s easy to assume that al... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2024/12/06/ampere-ws-1-the-other-apl-portable-computer/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2024/12/06/ampere</span><span class="invisible">-ws-1-the-other-apl-portable-computer/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/amperews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amperews</span></a>-1 <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/apl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apl</span></a></p>
Aho<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Finland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Finland</span></a> seems to on it's way to reintroduce <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/apl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apl</span></a> (anti-personel landmine), this based on how <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nazi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> fights in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MikkoSavola" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MikkoSavola</span></a> thinks the mines will be back 2027.</p><p>Source: <a href="https://yle.fi/a/74-20128708" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">yle.fi/a/74-20128708</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually<p>I love how small the <a href="https://mastodon.well.com/tags/ProgrammingLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProgrammingLanguage</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.well.com/tags/compiler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compiler</span></a> world is sometimes. </p><p>I was checking something on the grammar for <a href="https://mastodon.well.com/tags/Smalltalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Smalltalk</span></a> and its cascade construct and saw on the (original) C2 wiki that “Budd’s Little Smalltalk” ignored one of the odder corner cases of the cascade construct because it’s a pain to parse. </p><p>I go to Budd’s home page and it turns out it’s the same Budd who wrote the “An <a href="https://mastodon.well.com/tags/APL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>APL</span></a> Compiler” book that’s just a ton of fun. </p><p>Small world. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.well.com/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a></p>
IT News<p>A Modern Take on an Old Language - Some old computer languages are destined to never die. They do, however, evolve. F... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2024/08/16/a-modern-take-on-an-old-language/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2024/08/16/a-mode</span><span class="invisible">rn-take-on-an-old-language/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/softwaredevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>softwaredevelopment</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/featured" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>featured</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/apl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apl</span></a></p>
S. Lott<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@ovid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ovid</span></a></span> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Fortran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fortran</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/COBOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>COBOL</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/PL1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PL1</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/APL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>APL</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Snobol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Snobol</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/algol60" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>algol60</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lisp</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>basic</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/jovial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jovial</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pascal</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>python</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/java" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>java</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/c" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>c</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/cpp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cpp</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/plsql" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plsql</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/perl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>perl</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/forth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>forth</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ada</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/tcl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tcl</span></a></p><p>I worked with <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/prolog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prolog</span></a> and could do maintenance on the code, but couldn’t really create from scratch.</p><p>I started in the 70’s, IBM 1620 assembler.</p>
IT News<p>Bringing APL To The Masses: The History Of The IBM 5100 - The 1970s was a somewhat awkward phase for the computer industry — as hulking, roo... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2023/12/19/bringing-apl-to-the-masses-the-history-of-the-ibm-5100/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2023/12/19/bringi</span><span class="invisible">ng-apl-to-the-masses-the-history-of-the-ibm-5100/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/ibm5100" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ibm5100</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/apl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apl</span></a></p>
Jonathan CarrollAdvent of Code day 3
Tom Chappell<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a> 1/</p><p>I'm a long-time computer programmer living in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PalmSprings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PalmSprings</span></a>, California.</p><p>I actually programmed FORTRAN and COBOL professionally back in the day (sometimes on punch cards!), quickly followed by C on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UNIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UNIX</span></a> in 1975, then C++, Java, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Scala" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scala</span></a>, and currently <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GoLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoLang</span></a>. I also like and have written quite a bit of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Clojure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Clojure</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/APL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>APL</span></a>, though not for money. </p><p>I wrote up a story about my first <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Scala" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scala</span></a> experience here: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@tomchappell/109311684682010904" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@tomchappell/1</span><span class="invisible">09311684682010904</span></a></p><p>Still going strong -- back off, bugs.</p>