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[[File:APL Orchard activity.png|thumb|right|Typical activity over a 24-hour period (UTC)]] | [[File:APL Orchard activity.png|thumb|right|Typical activity over a 24-hour period (UTC)]] | ||
'''The APL Orchard''' ([https://apl.chat apl.chat]) is a [[wikipedia:Stack Exchange|Stack Exchange]] chat room dedicated to learn and teach APL, and to ask and answer questions about both golfing and general coding in APL. It was opened by [[Adám Brudzewsky]] on January 24, 2017, and has since developed its own community, remaining the most active APL chat room today, with over 1.000 messages per week. It passed a total of a 100.000 messages by 200 users in July 2020, and 150.000 messages by 250 users in February 2021. A [[#Chat_bot|chat bot]] synchronises the Stack Exchange room with the [[wikipedia:Freenode|Freenode]] #apl IRC room. | '''The APL Orchard''' ([https://apl.chat apl.chat]) is a [[wikipedia:Stack Exchange|Stack Exchange]] chat room dedicated to learn and teach APL, and to ask and answer questions about both golfing and general coding in APL. It was opened by [[Adám Brudzewsky]] on January 24, 2017, and has since developed its own community, remaining the most active APL chat room today, with over 1.000 messages per week. It passed a total of a 100.000 messages by 200 users in July 2020, and 150.000 messages by 250 users in February 2021. <!-- A [[#Chat_bot|chat bot]] synchronises the Stack Exchange room with the [[wikipedia:Freenode|Freenode]] #apl IRC room.--> | ||
Many participants arrive as complete beginners when it comes to APL, some not even knowing what APL is. Instead, they are attracted by the room being among the most active on Stack Exchange. Other participants are APL veterans. [[Morten Kromberg]] has written a [[blogs|blog]] post about the chat room, focusing on Dyalog Ltd.'s relationship with newcomers and established users.<ref>[[Morten Kromberg]]. [https://www.dyalog.com/blog/2021/02/the-apl-orchard/ The APL Orchard]. [[Dyalog Ltd.|Dyalog]] Blog. 21 February 2021.</ref> | Many participants arrive as complete beginners when it comes to APL, some not even knowing what APL is. Instead, they are attracted by the room being among the most active on Stack Exchange. Other participants are APL veterans. [[Morten Kromberg]] has written a [[blogs|blog]] post about the chat room, focusing on Dyalog Ltd.'s relationship with newcomers and established users.<ref>[[Morten Kromberg]]. [https://www.dyalog.com/blog/2021/02/the-apl-orchard/ The APL Orchard]. [[Dyalog Ltd.|Dyalog]] Blog. 21 February 2021.</ref> | ||
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In the transcript, the edit history is available for all messages, and this view includes the source of a message. The easiest way to reach it is to middle-click the <kbd>▼</kbd> action menu on the left of the wanted message to open the transcript in a new tab (or click, then click "permalink", if you don't have a middle mouse button), then click <kbd>▼</kbd> and then "history". | In the transcript, the edit history is available for all messages, and this view includes the source of a message. The easiest way to reach it is to middle-click the <kbd>▼</kbd> action menu on the left of the wanted message to open the transcript in a new tab (or click, then click "permalink", if you don't have a middle mouse button), then click <kbd>▼</kbd> and then "history". | ||
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=== Chat bot === | === Chat bot === | ||
The room features a chat bot, '''Dyalog APL''', which can evaluate a safe subset of APL.<ref>Using [[Adám Brudzewsky]]'s [https://github.com/abrudz/dyalog-safe-exec Safe Execute for Dyalog APL] tool.</ref> To use it, prefix a chat message, inline code, or a code block with <source lang=apl inline>⋄</source>. Using markdown (for example <source lang=md inline>`⋄ 2+3`</source>) or fixed-width (4 or more initial spaces on each line, which can be inserted by pressing <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>k</kbd>) is highly recommended for readability and to avoid interpretation of APL symbols as markdown. | The room features a chat bot, '''Dyalog APL''', which can evaluate a safe subset of APL.<ref>Using [[Adám Brudzewsky]]'s [https://github.com/abrudz/dyalog-safe-exec Safe Execute for Dyalog APL] tool.</ref> To use it, prefix a chat message, inline code, or a code block with <source lang=apl inline>⋄</source>. Using markdown (for example <source lang=md inline>`⋄ 2+3`</source>) or fixed-width (4 or more initial spaces on each line, which can be inserted by pressing <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>k</kbd>) is highly recommended for readability and to avoid interpretation of APL symbols as markdown. | ||
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=== APL execution userscript === | === APL execution userscript === | ||