Hello, APL! Hoping to squeeze as much APL in as possible during lunch breaks today.

@B.Wilson What are you planning to do?

Some Dyalog-ers are trying to get the RIDE protocol on plan9, a few of us would like to use it for our jobs. It will likely never run natively and virtualization is hit or miss.

Ping me if you make progress :)

With virtualization, a RIDE protocol file structure and some improvements to the netsurf fork it should be viable.

@user53691 Hi mwah. If you want to participate here, please email [email protected]

@essielovett I will try to make progress on this during the weekend if no other plans get in the way :)

@B.Wilson ⎕WG is now allowed on TryAPL.

That was fast!

@pmikkelsen Me too :)

The APL bookworms was a good idea, I have so many interesting APL books, I should be better read

@essielovett I was thinking about making a "libride", which abtracts away the actual communication. Then it should be relatively easy to do whatever we want with it afterwards. My plan is to have a filesystem with a /session file that is read-write, and a /ws/ folder which is like the workspace explorer. Each file in /ws/ should be read-write with any old editor. And then lastly, a /ctl file which you can write certain yet-to-be-decided commands to, such as 'echo StrongInterrupt > /mnt/ride/ctl'

Do you have other plans?

I hadn't thought about it much yet, but if I have some interesting ideas I'll message you :)

Great :)

@essielovett Can I get in on this discussion?

@hyper-neutrino Can you give chat.stackexchange.com/users/570753/user53691 access?

@Adám done

oh wait someone else did it already it seems

yeah, but thanks anyway

@Jacob Welcome. Interested in APL?

just looking around, thanks

it seems cool but it all goes way over my head

it is actually a very simple language. Can I offer you a personalised intro?

@user5369 You should have write access now. Since you're new to Stack Exchange chat, I highly recommend familiarising yourself with apl.wiki/APL_Orchard#Features