- These are the steps that I took to get Dyalog up and running on an OS X 10.11 box for my first time ever
- Dyalog is easy to set up on OS X
- These notes are the shortest specific steps that I found to get Dyalog up and running
- My goal is to evaluate
⍳5using my laptop keyboard - My notes follow
- There are four different licenses that make Dyalog accessible to every kind of user
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Choose a price and license and then follow the link to apply for a license
Approximate Price (USD) License Link Note 0 Unregistered Nagware 0 Educational Share project details 100 Personal/Non-Commercial NA 2000 Commercial NA - Wait 5 minutes for that license and download link via email
- Read the installation guide
- Download and install, don’t run it yet
- Go to
$HOME/.dyalogand initialize a Git repo and add everything and commit it - Install the fixed-width APL385 font into
$HOME/Library/Fonts/ - Install keyboard mapping for APL glyphs into
$HOME/Library/Keyboard Layoutsfollowing the setup directions- The default way to switch input sources is
control-<space>previous input sourcecontrol-option-spacenext input source
- Emacs will notice, so change it to
option-spacepreviousoption-shift-spacenext
- The input source is nice, glad to learn about this
- The default way to switch input sources is
- Print out the Default Keyboard page to keep on your desk
- You can also find the layout here which is nice if you want to change the font size or color of the printout. The APL symbols are difficult to read when they are in orange on white.
- I pasted it into a text editor and made it black on white, and increased the font (APL385) size to 41 to fill the entire page
- After playing around with I learned that when you print the PDF you can adjust the zoom to fill the entire page, so I did so
- Here is the final result
- Start Dyalog
- Make sure that it works
- Should be able to evaluate
⍳5now - Hold
Optionand push the I key and then 5 and hit return
- Most APL examples on the Internet are IBM APL2
- If you want to run them then set the compatibility level to 3 like this
⎕ML←3
- If you want to run them then set the compatibility level to 3 like this
- This is how I got started
- Feel good about it
- Have an APL distribution
- With an APL keyboard, cool!
- That can run most APL examples, cool!
- Looking forward to doing more
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