Pol Alvarez Vecino·Oct 5Notes on “Notation as a Tool of Thought”“Notation as a Tool of Thought” is a Turing award lecture & paper by Kenneth E. Iverson. He argues that a good notation is an indispensable…
DefconQ·Sep 23Obituary of Kenneth Iverson: Celebrating His Life and WorkComing back from this year’s Iverson College, I brought home quite a lot: a mountain of new knowledge, newly made friends, some…
Nimalan·Jul 19APL — The Evil Twin of Function ProgrammingDonald Knuth had famously said that “programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute”. The APL…
InArtificial Intelligence in Plain Englishbyinprogrammer·Jul 15I Spent $50 Testing Local LLMs, Cloud APIs, and ChatGPT Plus. Here’s What I Got.Friends LinkA response icon1A response icon1
solarbreeze·May 22Benchmarking I-APL, Sharp APL/PC and SuperPET Waterloo microAPLLet’s time the benchmarks from Dick Holt’s “A beginner’s guide to low-cost “real work” APL interpreters” using I-APL and Sharp APL/PC, and…
Abby Gruen·Apr 22From Pedal Steel to Petabytes: Ed Bierly’s Unlikely Path Through APL, k, and kdb+This article is based on an interview with Ed Bierly, a musician, naturalist and computer programmer based in Morristown, N.J. who was an…
Abby Gruen·Mar 17Notation as a Tool of Thought in practice: Rob Hodgkinson on a Surveillance System in q/kdb+An oral history that spans the transformation of financial trading from open outcry to today’s electronic trading systemsA response icon1A response icon1
Karuna·Feb 10🚀 Our Java APIs Were Painfully Slow — One Senior Review Made Them 10× FasterThe symptoms were familiar.
InSystem WeaknessbyDolly·Dec 24, 2025🧵 Structured Concurrency in Java 21 for Spring Boot APIsKeywords: Java structured concurrency, Spring Boot Java 21, StructuredTaskScope Spring, parallel API calls Java, CompletableFuture…
