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  Dienstag, 16. Januar 2007

Kx recently named Niall Dalton Chief Solutions Architect. Great news!

For some Niallese, see Adrian Smith's write-up of Niall's rather fascinating talk at last year's Kx User Meeting.

Cf., as spotted on comp.lang.apl: '[create Seymour Cray] gave us a talk about future trends in hardware, &c, where he mentioned "vectorisation", and pointed out that it was silly taking a problem statement expressed in linear algebra, scalarising the thing so it was expressable in Fortran, and then stuffing that code through a vectoriser to spot the loops, in order to optimise them out -- and so they (CDC) were looking at this thing called APL, as a more direct way of working'

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