2021-01-13-Dave-Mason.md

Articles:

• Typesetting UTF8 APL code with the LaTeX lstlisting package
• Typesetting APL dialects: a bitter legacy of the 20th century?

Links:

• None

Discussion:

• Thesis defence: 4 members
  • 3 internals
  • 1 chair (typically the grad program director)
• There is LaTex template, will use Fossil for version control
• Floating point array has values encoded in array
• If you have this in raw format, might be able to do GPU operations
• There are ~512 primitives <primitive: 1>
• Slang is subset Smalltalk, statically typed used to compile to C (CUDA not supported at the moment)
• Other option is to have FFI bindings to libary like Thrust

Previous To Do:

• ❌ Read How learning Smalltalk can improve your skills as a programmer Article
• ❌ Read Smalltalk Case Statement
• ❌ Implement switch / case in Smalltalk
• ❌ Push to SmallTalk Package to github for ⬆️
• ❌ Add Smalltalk impl to YT Video Part 2
• ❌ Try SwitchCase
• ❌ implement groupBy

To Do:

• Read How learning Smalltalk can improve your skills as a programmer Article
• Read Smalltalk Case Statement
• Implement switch / case in Smalltalk
• Push to SmallTalk Package to github for ⬆️
• Add Smalltalk impl to YT Video Part 2
• Try SwitchCase
• implement groupBy