Roger Hui

From APL Wiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
At Dyalog '18

Roger Kwok Wah Hui (December 29, 1953 - October 16, 2021[1]) was a computer scientist and co-developer of the programming language J, and later Dyalog APL. He ran and maintained the Jsoftware website.

Roger Hui's Iverson Award

History

Hui's work was described at the APL85 conference in a paper, "DESIGN: A Financial Modelling System", written jointly with his supervisor, Fred Appleyard. The basic objects in the system were in "Direct Definition" (Iverson, 1976, 1980), and Falkoff and Iverson's The Design of APL was cited. Hui left Alberta Energy shortly after being promoted to a non-APL and non-programming position, and was out of work, and had no access to computers, from September 1985 to April 1986. This gave him plenty of time for intense study of Iverson's Rationalized APL (1983) and A Dictionary of the APL Language, as it was then named. In 1996, Hui received the Iverson Award for his work on the design, implementation, and commercial development of J.

Hacker News honouring Roger Hui with a black bar across the top banner.

Death

Hui's death was announced by Eric Iverson on October 16, 2021.[1] It was subsequently noted in various media, including Hacker News (which displayed a black banner in his honour),[2] Reddit,[3] Jsoftwares's chat,[4], and Dyalog news.[5]

Publications

APL conferences

Dyalog user meetings

Main article: Dyalog user meeting

Essays

Other talks

External links

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Eric Iverson. Roger Hui - 1953 - 2021. Jsoftware programming forum. 2021-10-17.
  2. ↑ Hacker News. Roger hui has died. 2021-10-17.
  3. ↑ Reddit. Roger Hui (1953 - 2021). apljk subreddit. 17 Oct 2021.
  4. ↑ Raul Miller. Roger Hui - 1953 - 2021. Jsoftware chat forum. 2021-10-17.
  5. ↑ Dyalog Ltd. Roger Hui. Dyalog news. 2021-10-18.
APL community [edit]
Conferences and activities Advent of Code ∙ APL Campfire ∙ APL Cultivation ∙ APL Meetup (Portuguese) ∙ APL Problem Solving Competition ∙ APL Quest ∙ APL Seeds ∙ Array Cast ∙ BAA sessions ∙ Code golf ∙ Dyalog user meetings ∙ Dyalog webinars ∙ Iverson Award ∙ Sharing code
Chat rooms and forums APL Farm ∙ APL Orchard
User groups APL Borealis (Canada) ∙ APL et J (France) ∙ APL Germany (terminology) ∙ APL ∊ BCN (Spain) ∙ BAA (UK) ∙ FinnAPL (Finland) ∙ JAPLA (Japan) ∙ SAUG (Switzerland) ∙ SIGAPL (USA) ∙ SwedAPL (Sweden) ∙ Tokyo APL/J/K Meetup (Japan)
People Phil Abrams ∙ Brian Becker ∙ Bob Bernecky ∙ Larry Breed ∙ Charles Brenner ∙ Jim Brown ∙ Adám Brudzewsky ∙ Gitte Christensen ∙ Peter Donnelly ∙ John Earnest ∙ Adin Falkoff ∙ Garth Foster ∙ Aaron Hsu ∙ Roger Hui ∙ Ken Iverson ∙ Morten Kromberg ∙ Marshall Lochbaum ∙ Eugene McDonnell ∙ Jon McGrew ∙ Donald McIntyre ∙ Roger Moore ∙ Alan Perlis ∙ Henry Rich ∙ Al Rose ∙ William Rutiser ∙ John Scholes ∙ Ian Sharp ∙ Bob Smith ∙ Geoff Streeter ∙ Roy Sykes ∙ Arthur Whitney
Other APL Quote Quad ∙ APL Wiki ∙ Blogs ∙ Books ∙ Famous APL users ∙ Humour ∙ Jobs ∙ Papers ∙ TryAPL ∙ Try It Online ∙ Video channels
Retrieved from ‘https://aplwiki.com/index.php?title=Roger_Hui&oldid=7568’