Vol.24 N°1

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Cauchy curve

Curve it like Cauchy
Jones & Reiter use some simple J to draw out Cauchy’s Integral Theorem – and discover startling and lovely shapes.

student

Suffer the little children…
to bring their homework to Norman Thomson
Dyalog 2008

Chela sharpens her focus

Adrian Smith reports from Dyalog’s largest-ever user meeting.
Industry news
APL2000 in D.C. plus news from Dyalog, Kx Systems and MicroAPL
Unicode – playing to win

Unicode Support for APL

Morten Kromberg meets some strange characters on the Basic Multilingual Plane. (Watch the chessboard demonstration on YouTube.)
Tales from the crypt

A cool place

APL Germany is more alive than you thought.

So is APL2: Liebtag on Structured Storage and Monitor Expressions
Quickly correlating Kendall
Phew! Gordon Sutcliffe shares a fast way to calculate Kendall’s rank correlation frequency distribution.
About polynomials
The second part of Gianluigi Quario’s article on representing and evaluating polynomials.
Spice for beginners
Dan Baronet on how to use the new programmable command line in Dyalog’s IDE.

Optima Systems is recruiting:

IN PRESS

Functional calculation in J
Part 3: Neville Holmes introduces us to the structural ingredients
All but one
J-ottings columnist Norman Thomson explores omission and reduction
FinnAPL in Tallinn
News and recent developments from those smart people on the Baltic Rim. Adrian Smith reports.
A newbie’s discovery of APL
“Have you ever seen anything so elegant?” Rebecca Burriesci reviews A Practical Introduction to APL.
Help wanted Join the Vector Working Group and contribute or learn some useful skills. More…

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Tools of thought Professor Lera Boroditsky at Stanford has dragged the relationship between language and thought back into the psych lab – and has exciting results to report.

MicroAPL has released APLX 5, with ⎕XML and internal performance profiling, for public beta-testing

In our blog: Catherine Lathwell reflects on her visit to BAPLA09

Dyalog 12.1, with the new ⎕XML interface, has started beta-testing.

The July issue of PC Plus magazine includes a 3-page article “Program in APL”, featuring the NARS2000 interpreter.

BAA London chapter meets at a new (quieter) venue on 26 June.

First Derivatives announces the addition of a BGC Adaptor to its Delta product suite

John Smeenk requests comment on his specification of a new language, BPL, an APL-descendant

Masterminds of Programming

Masterminds of Programming
features Adin Falkoff on the creation of APL

New listings: APLs on YouTube

Bob Smith has released NARS2000, an ISO Extended APL compliant interpreter available as free open source software for Windows platforms and platforms with Wine.

Lorin Lund has ported A+ to Windows.

Queue magazine

ACM magazine Queue features a searching interview with Arthur Whitney

APLers crawl all over Craig Murphy’s programming challenge

Dyalog announces an $11,000 World Wide Programming Contest

At Play With J, by Eugene McDonnell

Vector Books has published At Play With J by Eugene McDonnell. Volunteer to help with the 2nd edition!

 

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Next meetings
Fr 26 June
BAA London Chapter
Tu 14 July
New York City JUG

Vector is the journal of the British APL Association. The BAA promotes the APLs, terse programming languages derived from Iverson’s mathematical notation. (more…)

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Kenneth E. Iverson
Kenneth E. Iverson
1920-2004

Coming up

19-20 Jun
International Symposium on Memory Management
Dublin, Ireland

23-25 Jun
SIFMA Technology Mgt Conference & Exhibit
New York City

26 Jun
BAA London Chapter
London

14 Jul
J User Group
New York City

13-16 Sep
Princeton, NJ
Dyalog ’09
Princeton, NJ

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