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Volume 14, 1997–1998

N°1, August 1997

Page Article Author
3 Editorial Duncan Pearson
APL NEWS
5 Quick Reference Diary
Correspondence
7  Norman Thomson *et al*
7  APL and the rank operator Norman Thomson
8  The Enclose of an Empty Array Joseph De Kerf
8  Year 2000 — why the Consternation? Bob Brown
11 British APL Association News
12  AGM and Annual Accounts
15 News from Sustaining Members Gill Smith
33 The Education Vector (PDF)
33  Jottings 13 Norman Thomson
38  DNA Fingerprinting in APL Ian Clark
46  Do APL2 and J Come up to Scratch? Norman Thomson
51  The UK National Lottery Alan Wilson
19 APL Product Guide Gill Smith
GENERAL ARTICLES
58 OpenGL Graphics and J Chris Burke
64 Emulation of AP207 in Dyalog APL Skomorokhov & Kornilovsky
78 The IML Matrix Language: A Belated Introduction Donald B. Pittenger
83 HTML Basics for APLers — Tables Adrian Smith
TECHNICAL SECTION
94 Namespaces in Causeway Duncan Pearson
106 Object Oriented Programming with APL+Win Eric Lescasse
129 APL and J (5): Operators — Inner Product, Each, Commute, Compose Chris Burke
135 At Play with J: Oh, No, Not Eigenvalues Again! Gene McDonnell
140 The API Problem as a Particular Recurrence Problem Andrei Buzin
143 Index to Advertisers (PDF)

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N°2, October 1997

Page Article Author
3 Editorial Duncan Pearson
APL NEWS
5 Quick Reference Diary
7 APL98 - Conference Information
Correspondence
11  Norman Thomson et al (PDF)
11  Accounts Correction Nicholas Small
11  Re: Year 2000 M.E. Martin
12  Year 2000 — Why the Consternation? Anne Wilson
14   Heron’s Rule and Integer Area Triangles William Jones
15   A Little Hook for Understanding Nicholas Cox
16   Enumerating and Generating Combinations Norman Thomson
16  Interesting Problem... Ajay Askoolum
18 British APL Association News
19 APL Product Guide Gill Smith
The Education Vector
33  The Josephus Problem Generalized in J Howard Peelle
38  J-ottings 14 Norman Thomson
APL97 — NOTES, PHOTOS AND PAPERS
43 APL97 (PDF)
 Conference Reports Pearson and Smith
43   APL97 (Toronto) Conference Reports
43   Conference: APL97 Reports Duncan Pearson, Adrian Smith
58 APL and Nested Arrays — a Dream for Statistical Computation Alan Sykes and Tom Stroud
71 Interactive Design of Structures: A Program for Everyone Riebenbauer and Hoffmann
85 The Logical Piano of W. S. Jevons Keith Smillie
92 APL97 Survey Results Dick Holt
GENERAL ARTICLES
100 How to Win Programming Language Battles Donald Pittenger
TECHNICAL SECTION
Hackers’ Corner:
110  A PostScript Type 1 Font Downloader John Sullivan
112 Use of Multivariate Techniques for the Grouping Together of Districts Guervos et al
121 Niven Numbers and APL Joseph De Kerf
125 A Note on Cholesky Decomposition Tapio Nummi
127 Index to Advertisers (PDF)

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N°3, January 1998

Page Article Author
3 Editorial Ajay Askoolum
APL NEWS
7 Quick Reference Diary
9 APL99 — Call for Participation
11 Correspondence (PDF)
11  Finding an Elephant George MacLeod
12  APL Null Ajay Askoolum
13 News from Sustaining Members
16 APL Product Guide Gill Smith
30  Review of APL97 CD Rom (PDF) Adrian Smith
30   Review: APL97 CD Rom Adrian Smith
30   APL97 (Toronto) CD Rom (with Abstracts)
36  Review of *ComLog* Jon Sandles
37  Dyalog APL/M 8.1.2 Bob Hoekstra
The Education Vector
53  Zark Newletter Extracts edited by Jon Sandles
56  J-ottings 15 Norman Thomson
CONFERENCE REPORTS
61 APL2000 Conference Report Ray Cannon
69 Tool of Thought (X) Ed Shaw
GENERAL ARTICLES
71 The Computer Construction of Weaving Designs Keith Smillie
82 HTML Basics for APLers — Lists Adrian Smith
91 Using APL and J in Conjunction to Improve System Validity Donald Pittenger
TECHNICAL SECTION
98 Hackers’ Corner: the Windows Registry John Sullivan
102 Technical Correspondence Dave Piper
105 An ODBC Browser Using SQL and Dyalog APL Richard Smith
109 Object Oriented Programming with APL+Win Eric Lescasse
138 Armstrong Numbers and APL Joseph De Kerf
143 Index to Advertisers (PDF)

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N°4, April 1998

Page Article Author
3 Editorial (PDF) Stefano Lanzavecchia
3  Editorial: Giochiamo col mondo Stefano Lanzavecchia
3  Editorial: Giochiamo col mondo Stefano Lanzavecchia
APL NEWS
7 Quick Reference Diary
Correspondence
9  Thomson, Clough, Henriod, Karman, Last, Selfridge
17 News from Sustaining Members
19 APL Product Guide Gill Smith
33  Review of RainPro Bob Byers
The Education Vector
38  Zark Newletter Extracts edited by Jon Sandles
48  J-ottings 16 Norman Thomson
53  Volutes Howard Peelle
GENERAL ARTICLES
67 APL and J: Working Together, yet Separately Donald Pittenger
74 Internet Programming with the Internet Server Auxiliary Processor Andrei Kondrashev
91 HTML Basics for APLers (IV): Forms and Servers Adrian Smith
103 J4 and OOP Chris Burke
TECHNICAL SECTION
112 Hackers’ Corner: Six Megabytes in 640K? Anthony Camacho
Technical Correspondence
117  Cannon, Clough, Henriod (PDF)
117   Letter: Working with compressed data Ray Cannon
118   Letter: Niven Number Computing Speed Eddie Clough
120   Letter: More on Niven Numbers Claude Henriod
122 At Play with J: A Newer Random Link Generator Gene McDonnell
128 Using OpenGL Graphics in Dyalog APL Sasha Skomorokhov
143 Index to Advertisers (PDF)

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