| ▲ | xvilka an hour ago | |
In the modern world there is no place for the commercial compiler. They should have made it free (and open source) and only IDE (maybe) paid one. Even better - push into GCC or LLVM. | ||
| ▲ | gucci-on-fleek an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |
I agree with you in principal, but I don't think that that's realistic at all, since that would completely destroy Dyalog's entire business model. I personally have little interest in learning a non-FOSS programming language, but Dyalog's paying customers are clearly okay with it, so I see little reason for them to change. | ||
| ▲ | radiator an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
But why? Commercial APL implementations have existed since decades ago. They always had customers. They were always at least partly owned by employees. Dyalog was not created in a void, but continuing this tradition. | ||
| ▲ | tosh an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |
fwiw Dyalog APL is free for non-commercial use: | ||