Exploring the Array Languages while Building Community

Alex Alejandre is a moderator on the apljk subreddit who is exploring the array languages and looking for ways to move the community forward.

Host: Conor Hoekstra

Guest: Alex Alejandre

Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Bob Therriault and Richard Park.

Ashok Reddy, CEO of KX, tells us about the new community initiative KDB-X.

Host: Conor Hoekstra

Guest: Ashok Reddy

Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Bob Therriault, Alex Unterrainer and Adám Brudzewsky.

Asher Mancinelli's Ideal Array Language

The ways that we represent arrays can influence the speed of our languages.

Host: Conor Hoekstra

Guest: Asher Mancinelli

Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Bob Therriault and Adám Brudzewsky.

Implementing Replicate

We do our first deep dive into implementing primitives by looking at Copy/Replicate

Host: Conor Hoekstra

Panel: Henry Rich, Marshall Lochbaum, Bob Therriault and Adám Brudzewsky.

John Earnest returns with news of a new Decker Fantasy Camp as well as reasons that Decker and Lil are making serious progress in promoting the array languages.

Host: Conor Hoekstra

Guest: John Earnest

Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Stephen Taylor, Bob Therriault and Adám Brudzewsky.

Alex Unterrainer tells us about being a q developer and his learning site DefconQ.tech

Host: Bob Therriault

Guest: Alex Unterrainer

Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Stephen Taylor and Adám Brudzewsky.

Single Assignment C

Sven-Bodo Scholz explains the motivation for the SAC (Single Assignment C) Compiler and other aspects of High Performance Computing

Host: Conor Hoekstra

Guest: Sven-Bodo Scholz

Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Stephen Taylor and Bob Therriault.

Making Interpreters Faster

Our guests are Henry Rich and Geoff Streeter in this deep discussion of how interpreters for array languages are optimized.

Host: Conor Hoekstra

Guests: Henry Rich and Geoff Streeter

Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Adám Brudzewsky, Stephen Taylor and Bob Therriault.

The ArrayFire GPU Library

Our guests are John Melonakos and Umar Arshad of ArrayFire as we discuss the challenges of implementing GPU performance for higher level languages.

Host: Conor Hoekstra

Guests: John Melonakos and Umar Arshad

Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Adám Brudzewsky, and Bob Therriault.

J9.6 - The New J Version of J

For the 7th time our guest is Henry Rich, the maintainer of the J language. Henry tells us all about the new J Version 9.6

Host: Conor Hoekstra

Guest: Henry Rich

Panel: Marshall Lochbaum and Bob Therriault.

Julia - an Array Language

Our guest is Miguel Raz (@miguelraz) an advocate for the Julia language and the multiple dispatch approach.

Host: Conor Hoekstra

Guest: Miguel Raz (@miguelraz)

Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Richard Park, and Bob Therriault.

The Goal Array Language

Our guest is Yon Fernández de Retana (anaseto) who is the creator of Goal, an array language written in Go and particularly targeted at text manipulation.

Host: Conor Hoekstra

Guest: Yon Fernandez Retana (anaseto)

Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Adám Brudzewsky, Bob Therriault and Stephen Taylor.

Dan Bricklin, VisiCalc and APL

We had no idea how much APL had influenced Dan Bricklin, co-creator of VisiCalc. He has great insight on the path ahead as well.

Host: Conor Hoekstra

Guest: Dan Bricklin

Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Adám Brudzewsky, Bob Therriault and Stephen Taylor.

The 100th Episode with Aaron Hsu

Aaron talks about his APL compiler, Co-Dfns and many other things.

Host: Conor Hoekstra

Guest: Aaron Hsu

Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Adám Brudzewsky, Bob Therriault and Stephen Taylor.

Selecting elements from arrays is foundational for the array languages. This episode is about the evolution of selecting and indexing with APL.

Host: Conor Hoekstra

Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Adám Brudzewsky, Bob Therriault and Stephen Taylor.

Conor's title for this episode is "My Life as a Quant - Phineas Porter and q"

If you are interested in array languages in the workplace, this is for you.

Host: Conor Hoekstra

Guest: Phineas Porter

Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Adám Brudzewsky, Bob Therriault and Stephen Taylor.

On this episode of the ArrayCast our guest is Brandon Wilson.

Brandon studied the Co-dfns compiler with Aaron Hsu and is using APL to write a YAML parser. This is a deep dive into manipulating data structures.

Host: Conor Hoekstra

Guest: Brandon Wilson

Panel: Rich Park, Bob Therriault and Stephen Taylor.

Decker is a mixture of HyperCard, Flash, Lua and q that John Earnest has created for programmers, artists and creatives.

Host: Conor Hoekstra

Guest: John Earnest

Panel: Adám Brudzewsky, Bob Therriault and Marshall Lochbaum.

Not many spoilers, but a few hints and lots of discussion around Advent of Code.

Host: Conor Hoekstra

Guests: John Earnest and Kai Schmidt

Panel: Stephen Taylor, Rich Park, Bob Therriault and Marshall Lochbaum.

Ashok Reddy announces a change to the corporate structure of KX and the challenges and opportunities ahead.

Host: Conor Hoekstra

Guest: Ashok Reddy

Panel: Stephen Taylor, Adám Brudzewsky, Bob Therriault and Marshall Lochbaum.