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Noob questions:

- Did anybody try to use APL (or a derivate) in web development?

- Is the APL job market under-saturated? Or putting it in a different form: is there job opportunities for the 'average Joe'?

I hate verbose, or better, I hate to be distracted by it.




I haven’t seen an APL job posting since 1995 ; I’m sure they exist eg at Dyalog or Carlisle, but I haven’t seen any in the wild in over 20 years.

I have never seen a J job posting.

K programmers appear to be in demand, mostly around New York, Connecticut and London (and th occasional posting about a job in Singapore). Salaries are rumored to be low-to-mid six figures.

If you are willing to be much less APLish but still mostly hang around vectors, MATLAB jobs are plentiful but usually require specific experience.


I'm not sure today, but it used to be actively used in the Fixed Income Department of Morgan Stanley in the 1980-90-2000 time period.


SimCorp is the largest industrial user of APL I know of. They even own part of Dyalog. They mostly use APL for business logic written by domain experts (primarily people who studied finance), while infrastructure and GUIs tends to be written in C# by trained programmers.


> Did anybody try to use APL (or a derivate) in web development?

I'd love to see how it handles web dev. It doesn't look like it'd be good at those types of things.





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