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You can embed GNU APL. I did it once with Clojure[1], tho it wasn't too popular. If they hired you to do Python should probably do that instead of embedding APL

You can embed GNU APL. I did it once with Clojure[1], tho it wasn't too popular. If they hired you to do Python should probably do that instead of embedding APL into Python. (I don't follow my own advice) I would love to embed Dyalog but last time I tried I wasn't smart enough. If anyone from Dyalog feels like throwing cycles at it let me know! [1] https://github.com/jjtolton/libapl-clj https://github.com/jjtolton/libapl-clj

jodrellblank 2y ago
Dyalog is a .Net language do you can write classes in APL and export DLLs that you can use from C# or F# from something like ASP.Net web servers.
- upghost 2y ago
  Very cool! I don't quite know how I would use that to fully embed Dyalog. Very large class..?
  - jodrellblank 2y ago
    What do you mean by "fully embed"? The integration is a 'bridge', the Dyalog engine stays involved. The simplest way is to make a class and method that takes a string and ⍎ evals it as APL code and returns the result, and call that from C#. From there, you could write more and more APL code and make wrapper methods to expose an API of methods that C# can call. They have a .NET Interface document: https://docs.dyalog.com/latest/dotNET%20Interface%20Guide.pdf https://docs.dyalog.com/latest/dotNET%20Interface%20Guide.pd... And more general documentation: https://www.dyalog.com/documentation_190.htm https://www.dyalog.com/documentation_190.htm including one for classic Windows .NET (instead of .NET Core) and one "APL As A Shared Library" which is about integrating with other systems using C (making a C .DLL) instead of .NET.
    - upghost 2y ago
      Ahhh this is fantastic. Exactly what I was looking for. As I said before not that smart, but hopefully a little smarter than I was before. The shared library documents, if I can figure them out, would allow for a libdyalog-clj, which would be extremely exciting. To me, anyway, and maybe like six other people haha. Thank you, jodrellblank, for being patient with me and for this information.

jodrellblank 2y ago

Dyalog is a .Net language do you can write classes in APL and export DLLs that you can use from C# or F# from something like ASP.Net web servers.

upghost 2y ago
Very cool! I don't quite know how I would use that to fully embed Dyalog. Very large class..?
- jodrellblank 2y ago
  What do you mean by "fully embed"? The integration is a 'bridge', the Dyalog engine stays involved. The simplest way is to make a class and method that takes a string and ⍎ evals it as APL code and returns the result, and call that from C#. From there, you could write more and more APL code and make wrapper methods to expose an API of methods that C# can call. They have a .NET Interface document: https://docs.dyalog.com/latest/dotNET%20Interface%20Guide.pdf https://docs.dyalog.com/latest/dotNET%20Interface%20Guide.pd... And more general documentation: https://www.dyalog.com/documentation_190.htm https://www.dyalog.com/documentation_190.htm including one for classic Windows .NET (instead of .NET Core) and one "APL As A Shared Library" which is about integrating with other systems using C (making a C .DLL) instead of .NET.
  - upghost 2y ago
    Ahhh this is fantastic. Exactly what I was looking for. As I said before not that smart, but hopefully a little smarter than I was before. The shared library documents, if I can figure them out, would allow for a libdyalog-clj, which would be extremely exciting. To me, anyway, and maybe like six other people haha. Thank you, jodrellblank, for being patient with me and for this information.