April 2025: APL Fools’

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Where we’re going, ASCII can’t follow. We’ve been threatening it for years, but now we’re finally going to do it - we’re going to take on APL.

For this very special meeting, we’ve lined up the following experienced APL programmer:

none whatsover

No, we’ll experiment together in realtime; no notes, no net, no insurance, no witnesses. By the end, surely we’ll be ready to write production-ready APL code… or, at least, we’ll have some fun and widen our minds.

Location: Innovation Hub

We meet in the Innovation Hub, a gorgeous new facility that’s part of the renovated Dayton Arcade complex.
Enter through the doors that face the Wright Stop Plaza bus hub.

Street parking is free in the evening. I usually park on Ludlow Street.

or

if for any reason coming downtown doesn’t work for you (for instance, you’ve been exposed to COVID, or you’ve converted yourself to purely digital format and now exist as a set of cloud-hosted algorithms), we’ll be online as well!

Join us at 7 PM EDT on the PyFri Discord channel, discord.gg/9SgTh3T, and click on the General voice chat link. You may need to install the Discord desktop app rather than just using the web interface.