Episodes
A discussion about the challenges and approaches to trying to build Array language communities. Community is vital to language survival.
Host: Conor Hoekstra
Panel: Bob Therriault and Marshall Lochbaum.
Published 11/23/24
Dr. Ken Iverson
In 1982, journalist Whitney Smith sat down and talked to Dr. Ken Iverson about a variety of topics. From sentient computers to education. Iverson's perception is far-reaching and accurate regarding many of the technological situations we find ourselves in today.
Hosts: Bob Therriault and Whitney Smith
Guest: Dr. Ken Iverson
Published 11/09/24
I.P. Sharp and Associates - A Company Ahead of its Time
Archival interviews by Whitney Smith and ArrayCast content provide insight into this important Canadian company.
Hosts: Bob Therriault and Whitney Smith
Published 10/26/24
Iverson College in Cambridge.
May you live in interesting times and the possibilities they represent. Ryan Hamilton of TimeStored discusses the adaptations that may be required.
Host: Conor Hoekstra
Guest: Ryan Hamilton of TimeStored
Panel: Stephen Taylor, Bob Therriault, Adám Brudzewsky, and Marshall Lochbaum.
Published 10/12/24
Participants of the 2024 Iverson College reflect.
Host: Conor Hoekstra
Guests: Stephen Taylor, Bob Therriault, Adám Brudzewsky, Aaron Hsu, Brian Ellingsgaard, Alex Unterrainer, Brandon Wilson, Devon McCormick, Kai Schmidt, Kamila Szewczyk,
Published 09/28/24
Madeline Vergani walks us through the development of her exploratory combinator array language, tinyapl.
Host: Conor Hoekstra
Guest: Madeline Vergani
Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Bob Therriault, and Adám Brudzewsky.
Published 09/14/24
Iverson College in Cambridge.
Host: Conor Hoekstra
Panel: Stephen Taylor, Bob Therriault, Adám Brudzewsky, Henry Rich, Aaron Hsu, Brian Ellingsgaard, Alex Unterrainer, Brandon Wilson, Devon McCormick, Jesús López-González, Josh David, Kai Schmidt, Ray Cannon, Rory Kemp, and Sasha Lopoukhine.
Published 08/31/24
Paul Teetor, author of the R Cookbook, is the guest on this episode of ArrayCast.
Host: Conor Hoekstra
Guest: Paul Teetor
Panel: Stephen Taylor, Marshall Lochbaum, Bob Therriault, and Adám Brudzewsky.
Published 08/17/24
Jonny Press has a long history of working with the q language from First Derivatives to KX Systems and now as CTO of Data Intellect. There are some stories to tell and Jonny is a story teller.
Host: Conor Hoekstra
Panel: Stephen Taylor, Marshall Lochbaum, Bob Therriault, and Adám Brudzewsky.
Published 08/03/24
Henry Rich joins us to take yet another run at the advantages and disadvantages of tacit programming.
Host: Conor Hoekstra
Panel: Henry Rich, Marshall Lochbaum, Bob Therriault, and Adám Brudzewsky.
Published 07/20/24
We spend some time remembering Raghu Ranganathan (Razetime) who recently passed away and then explore the world of code golfing languages with Jay Bates (caird coinheringaahing).
Published 07/06/24
The journey can be as important as the destination when you are implementing an experimental array language like NARS2000.
Host: Bob Therriault
Guest: Bob Smith
Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Stephen Taylor, and Adám Brudzewsky.
Published 06/22/24
Stephen is delivering a talk on how to think in vectors and we reflect on what thinking in vectors might mean.
Host: Conor Hoekstra
Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Stephen Taylor, Adám Brudzewsky and Bob Therriault.
Published 06/06/24
With a background in APL that goes back to 1969, Bob Smith is the developer/maintainer of the experimental array language NARS2000.
Host: Conor Hoekstra
Guest: Bob Smith
Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Stephen Taylor, Adám Brudzewsky and Bob Therriault.
Published 05/25/24
Steve Wilcockson, David Bergstein, and Gareth Thomas talk about their experiences at MathWorks, the developer of MATLAB.
Host: Conor Hoekstra
Guests: Steve Wilcockson, David Bergstein, and Gareth Thomas
Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Stephen Taylor, Adám Brudzewsky and Bob Therriault.
Published 05/11/24
Christopher Augustus and Steve Thames from proglangcast discuss their future project proglangbase that will provide detailed analysis of programming language strengths and weaknesses.
Host: Conor Hoekstra
Guests: Christopher Augustus and Steve Thames
Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Stephen Taylor and Bob Therriault.
Published 04/27/24
Uiua is Kai Schmidt's stack-based array language that has seen strong growth and much change in it first months.
Host: Conor Hoekstra
Guest: Kai Schmidt
Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Stephen Taylor and Bob Therriault.
Published 04/13/24
Conor McCarthy, the head architect of the KX-Python interface PyKX, tells us about version 4.1 of kdb+.
Host: Conor Hoekstra
Guest: Conor McCarthy
Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Adám Brudzewsky, Stephen Taylor and Bob Therriault.
Published 03/30/24
Stine Kromberg, the new CEO of Dyalog Ltd. unveils the new Dyalog Forge as way for APL enthusiasts to promote the language and looks at the business of promoting the array languages.
Host: Conor Hoekstra
Guest: Stine Kromberg
Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Adám Brudzewsky, Stephen Taylor and Bob Therriault.
Published 03/16/24
For this episode, we spoke with wunderkind Kamila Szewczyk, creator of the KamilaLisp experimental language.
Host: Conor Hoekstra
Guest: Kamila Szewczyk
Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Adám Brudzewsky, Stephen Taylor and Bob Therriault.
Published 03/02/24
Henry joins us once again to tell about the challenges he faced developing the newest version of J - also his feelings on tacit programming.
Host: Conor Hoekstra
Guest: Henry Rich
Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Adám Brudzewsky, Stephen Taylor and Bob Therriault.
Published 02/17/24
Kap is an array programming language written in Kotlin. We discuss the choices that Elias made as the language evolved.
Host: Conor Hoekstra
Guest: Elias Mårtenson
Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Rich Park, Stephen Taylor and Bob Therriault.
Published 02/03/24
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.
Published 01/20/24
James Price is an engaging story-teller and retro-programmer who develops games in APL for the Commodore Super Pet.
Host: Conor Hoekstra
Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Adám Brudzewsky, Stephen Taylor and Bob Therriault.
Published 01/06/24