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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''' 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 a thousand messages per week. It passed a total of a hundred thousand messages, and two hundred users, in July 2020. The [[#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, | '''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 a thousand messages per week. It passed a total of a hundred thousand messages, and two hundred users, in July 2020. The [[#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> | |||
== Access == | == Access == | ||