This will be a short “trip report” on the talks I watched over the week of the virtual GTC 2023 (March 20 - 24). All talks are freely available online. You can read my GTC trip report from 2022 here.

On the most recent episode of ArrayCast, we interviewed Michael Higginson about his path to the the array languages Q and APL. He was the most recent winner of the Dyalog APL Contest (in the professional category). During the podcast, he mentioned two beautiful solutions to two of the Phase 1 problems in the contest that, although never mentioned, were beautiful examples of using combinators.

This will be a short “trip report” on the talks I watched over the week of the virtual GTC 2022 (March 21 - 24). All talks are freely available online.

This trip report is a bit delayed, but better late than never. HOPL stands for History of Programming Languages and is a conference that happens roughly once every 14 years. The past HOPL conferences happened in the following years:

One of my favorite tweets is by Ben Deane: