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Volume 16, 1999–2000

N°1, July 1999

Page Article Author
3 Guest Editorial: The Walls are Closing in ... Adrian Smith
APL NEWS
5 Quick Reference Diary
7 Correspondence (PDF)
7  APLs for Linux Bob Hoekstra
10  Do I Have to Use Recursion? Anne Wilson
12 British APL Association News
12  Annual General Meeting 1999
15  Summary of Annual Accounts 1998/99
17  APL Keyboards for VECTOR Subscribers! Ian Clark
20 APL99 Abstracts
25 APL Product Guide Gill Smith
39 Microsoft Announce New APL
The Education Vector
42  Zark Newsletter Extracts edited by Jon Sandles
52   Comment by Jonathan Barman Jonathan Barman
53   Solution to Crossword from Vector 15.4 and Crossword
56  J-ottings 21: Time for Amendment of Data Norman Thomson
61  What Use Are User Defined Operators? Ian Clark
RECENT MEETINGS
67 BAA Vendor Forum Stefano Lanzavecchia
GENERAL ARTICLES
75 An APL Unicode Font Phil Chastney
86 GUI and Closed Systems Anthony Camacho
92 Namespaces: New Gem from Old Roots Alexander Balako
95 Windows BMP Files and J Brook Anthony Schofield
107 TECHNICAL SECTION
108 Hacker’s Corner: A Special Locator in Dyalog APL/W Joachim Hoffmann
110 Technical Correspondence (PDF)
110  Fibonacci for negative n Joseph De Kerf
111  Knowledge, Age and Experience are no Substitute for Good Fortune or How, in the end, Bill wins — you lose Peter Donnelly
113 At Play with J: New Big Deal Gene McDonnell
120 Purging Name Pollution in APL+Win Ajay Askoolum
122 Exact Horadam Numbers with a Chebyshevish Accent Clifford A. Reiter
133 J/LAPACK Interface... Procter & Brown
143 Index to Advertisers (PDF)

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N°2, October 1999

Page Article Author
3 Editorial
APL NEWS
5 Quick Reference Diary
7 APL2000 User Conference — Abstracts
13 British APL Association News
14 News from Sustaining Members
19 APL Product Guide Gill Smith
The Education Vector
33  Zark Newsletter Extracts edited by Jon Sandles
38   Solution to Crossword from Vector 16.1 and Crossword
41  J-ottings 22: Something for our very youngest readers Norman Thomson
The Random Vector
47  Bayesian Machine Learning in J A Charman-Williams
RECENT MEETINGS
61 APL99 — Notes and Pictures Ray Cannon
GENERAL ARTICLES
82 The Dance of the Quirk Sylvia Camacho
87 Sharp APL vs APL2 Coding Style Dan Baronet
101 Time-space Tradeoffs in Vector Algorithms Timothy Budd
TECHNICAL SECTION
110 Hacker’s Corner: Making Waves in Win32 Adrian Smith
113 APL+Internet Explorer Alexander Balako
121 Data Domains Phil Chastney
129 A Very Simple Structure Compiler for J Martin Neitzel
135 From Horadam to Atanosov Joseph De Kerf
143 Index to Advertisers (PDF)

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N°3, January 2000

Page Article Author
3 Editorial Stefano Lanzavecchia
APL NEWS
5 Quick Reference Diary
7 News from Sustaining Members
12 APL Product Guide Gill Smith
The Education Vector
27  Zark Newsletter Extracts edited by Jon Sandles
37   Crossword
39  J-ottings 23: Just what do they sell at C. and A.? Norman Thomson
44  Puzzle: Funny Cube Bernard Legrand
REVIEW
48 My SAX Experience - Sharp APL for Linux, Beta version 5.1.0 Bob Hoekstra
RECENT MEETINGS - APL2000
58 APL2000 User’s Meeting Adrian Smith
75 A Conference for Winners Jim Lucas
GENERAL ARTICLES
85 Sharp APL Operators Dan Baronet
99 Functional Implementation of Moments Based Region Descriptors in J C. Anne Chamley
111 Fast Fourier Transforms, Diffraction Patterns and J Reiter et al
TECHNICAL SECTION
119 Hackers’ Corner: Making Compressed GIFs in APL+Win and Dyalog APL Adrian Smith
125 PROPER Capitals Adam Kertesz
126 At Play with J: We’ll Cross that Bridge when we Come to it Gene McDonnell
131 Setting up a www-server with Dyalog APL and IIS Janne Mäenpää
136 Sending MIDI Messages to a Sound-card with J Martin Neitzel
143 Index to Advertisers (PDF)

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N°4, April 2000

No complete scan of this issue has been found, so articles listed without a link are known only from the index (help find one).

Page Article Author
3 Editorial Stefano Lanzavecchia
APL NEWS
Quick Reference Diary
6 News from Sustaining Members
APL Product Guide Gill Smith
The Education Vector
24  Zark Newsletter Extracts edited by Jon Sandles
34  J-ottings 24: One Foot in the Grade (not online) Norman Thomson
REVIEW
39 Unix APL Power Shootout (Part 1) Bob Hoekstra
RECENT MEETINGS - Finnish Forests
55 Conference Report - Notes and Pictures Adrian Smith
62 VML - Vector Graphics and the Internet Adrian Smith
68 Analysing Blackjack with APL Ian Clark
GENERAL ARTICLES
75 SHARP APL Tasks Dan Baronet
84 Stack Operations (not online) Phil Chastney
TECHNICAL SECTION
95 Hacker’s Corner: Using and Abusing Watchpoints in APL+Win 3.6 Adrian Smith
95  Hacker’s Corner: Using Watchpoints in APL+Win 3.6 (not online) Adrian Smith
999  Hacker's Corner: Using and Abusing Watchpoints in APL+Win 3.6 Adrian Smith
99 At Play with J: An Open and Shut Case Gene McDonnell
107 Literate Programming with J and noweb (not online) Martin Neitzel
116 Exploring ActiveX Data Objects from a Dyalog APL Point of View (not online) Korablev, Roche
128 Index to Vols 1-16
143 Index to Advertisers