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A podcast about the array programming languages. Discussing APL, J, K, Q, BQN, and other array languages.


Host: Conor Hoekstra is the host of ArrayCast, ADSP, and Tacit Talk (all podcasts) and runs the code_report YouTube channel.

Panelists:
Adám Brudzewsky is head of language design at Dyalog Ltd and a long-time APL enthusiast.

Past Panelists

Full Time:

Bob Therriault (Episodes 1–118) – J enthusiast, podcast editor and producer.

Stephen Taylor (Episodes 1–118) – APL and q enthusiast, former I.P. Sharp Associates developer.

Marshall Lochbaum (Episodes 32–118) – Creator of BQN, former Dyalog employee.

Recurring:

Richard Park (~30 episodes) – APL trainer and media producer at Dyalog Ltd.

Nick Psaris (~5 episodes) – Q expert at Kx Systems, author of Q Tips.

The Array Cast explores the world of array programming languages including APL, J, K, Q, BQN, Uiua, and more.


Send feedback to contact@arraycast.com.

To suggest a correction, open an issue or PR on GitHub.

20 January 2024

Episode 71: Primitives, Symbols and Keywords… Oh my!

Notes

The original plan was to talk about tacit programming, but we never got around to it. Instead we discovered that naming things is indeed one of the hard problems of computing.

Host: Conor Hoekstra

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


Original episode on ArrayCast

Show Notes

Array Cast - January 5, 2024

Thanks to Bob Therriault, Adám Brudzewsky, Marshall Lochbaum and Stephen Taylor for gathering these links:

[01] 00:01:24

[02] 00:08:07

[03] 00:13:51

[04] 00:20:00

[05] 00:27:08

[06] 00:34:09

[07] 00:41:06

[08] 00:51:02

[09] 00:59:15

[10] 01:14:46

[11] 01:23:17

tags: array-programming, array-languages, conor-hoekstra, apl, functions, keywords, primitives, bqn, j, j-language