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Volume 18, 2001–2002

N°1, July 2001

Page Article Author
3 Guest Editorial Anthony Camacho
APL NEWS
5 Quick Reference Diary
7 An article not about APL Bill Lam
British APL Association News
8  Minutes of the Meeting of the Committee of the British APL Association held on 18 May 2001 Anthony Camacho
9  Minutes of the AGM of the British APL Association held on 18 May 2001 Anthony Camacho
13  Competition Winner – “Spot the Axe”
14 News from Sustaining Members
16 APL Product Guide Gill Smith
The Education Vector
31  Zark Newsletter Extracts (PDF) edited by Jon Sandles
31   Combinations Gary Bergquist
37   Limbering Up: Polyadic Functions Gary Bergquist
39  Crossword
42  J-ottings 29: Power Steering Extra Norman Thomson
RECENT MEETINGS - APL2001 at Yale
48 My Yale 2001 Diary Ray Cannon
GENERAL ARTICLES
57 NavSim – a Shipping Simulator: Part I Tomas Gustafsson
69 Web Image Galleries Made Routine Clifford A. Reiter
TECHNICAL SECTION
84 Hacker’s Corner: Compressing with GZIP Adrian Smith
89 Technical Correspondence (PDF)
89  Locally defined niladic functions Phil Last
90  Localising the effects of system functions in D John Scholes
91 At Play with J: Boggle Gene McDonnell
103 J is for JPEG: Windows Bitmap to JPEG Baseline Compression Richard Dazeley
125 Inversion of Boolean Matrices Michel Dumontier
134 Matrix inversion modulo p Linear systems modulo p Michel Dumontier
143 Index to Advertisers (PDF)

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N°2, October 2001

Page Article Author
3 Editorial Stefano Lanzavecchia
APL NEWS
9 Correspondence
APL2002 in Madrid
11  Conference Site and Call for Papers
British APL Association News
14  An Implementation of A Adrian Smith
18  News from Sustaining Members
23 APL Product Guide Gill Smith
The Education Vector
38  Zark Newsletter Extracts (PDF) edited by Jon Sandles
38   Polyadic Functions Gary Bergquist
43   Limbering Up: Killing Comments Gary Bergquist
44   Primitive Pointers Gary Bergquist
45   Editor’s Note: COMBIN Timings
47  Crossword
50  J-ottings 30: Jaesthetics Norman Thomson
56  Getting Started with A Adrian Smith
64  An Elementary Tutorial on Conjunctions Donald B. McIntyre
GENERAL ARTICLES
78 Using Structures between GUI and Relational Databases Tomas Gustafsson
86 Can Anyone Tell Me Where I’m Wrong? Sylvia Camacho
TECHNICAL SECTION
97 Hacker’s Corner: Formatting Dates in Dyalog APL and APL+Win Adrian Smith
104 Technical Correspondence (PDF)
104  Conditional Idioms Phil Last
106  Matrix inversion modulo p John Sullivan
110 Persistence and Shadows Stephen Taylor
117 MUCIPHER: a New Short Cipher that Escapes Cryptanalysis Michel Dumontier
132 Function Models Phil Chastney
143 Index to Advertisers (PDF)

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N°3, January 2002

Page Article Author
3 Editorial Stefano Lanzavecchia
APL NEWS
5 Quick Reference Diary
British APL Association News
7  Notice of AGM and call for new committee
8  Update on A+ for Windows
9  News from Sustaining Members
15 APL Product Guide Gill Smith
31 Review of “J: the Natural Language for Analytic Computing” Cliff Reiter
The Education Vector
38  Zark Newsletter Extracts (PDF) edited by Jon Sandles
38   Killing Comments Gary Bergquist
42   Limbering Up: Generalised Searching Gary Bergquist
49  Crossword
46  Polyadic MORTGAGE as an APL2 operator Claude Henriod
47  MORTGAGE with a companion operator Gianluigi Quario
52  J-ottings 31: Symphony in J minor, op.31 Norman Thomson
RECENT MEETINGS – APL2000 at Naples
57 Conference Report Ray Cannon
64 Strategies for Dealing with Multiple Arguments: the Case for Names Eric Landau
GENERAL ARTICLES
71 What, in Computing, is Worth Learning? Anthony Camacho
80 The Image2 Addon Cliff and Zachary Reiter
89 Erratum – Function Models
TECHNICAL SECTION
90 Hacker’s Corner: Ghost Variables Ray Cannon
93 At Play with J: The Counterfeit Coin Problem Gene McDonnell
104 Bach’s Endlessly Rising Canon Ray Cannon
115 Extending the Domains Phil Chastney
127 Index to Advertisers (PDF)

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N°4, April 2002

Page Article Author
3 Editorial Stefano Lanzavecchia
APL NEWS
7 Quick Reference Diary
9 Accepted Papers at APL2002
British APL Association News
12  News from Sustaining Members
14 APL Product Guide Gill Smith
The Education Vector
29  Zark Newsletter Extracts (PDF) edited by Jon Sandles
29   Generalised Searching Gary Bergquist
35   Limbering Up: Generalised Searching Gary Bergquist
38  Crossword
41  J-ottings 32: the Stylish Part of Vector Norman Thomson
RECENT MEETINGS
48 Report: Finnish Forests VI Adrian Smith
50  Dynamic Functions in Practice Veli-Matti Jantunen
64  Using OLE with Dyalog APL and Excel Conrad Hoesle-Kienzlen
77  A PDF Primer for APLers Adrian Smith
85 Report: APL Germany in Munich Adrian Smith
GENERAL ARTICLES
88 Playing with the Beast Number with J Michel Dumontier
100 The Abstraction Mechanisms of Vector Pascal Paul Cockshott
113 Three Principles of Coding Clarity Stephen Taylor
TECHNICAL SECTION
126 Hacker’s Corner: Packages in Dyalog APL Ray Cannon
129 Technical Correspondence Norman Thomson
132 At Play with J: Second-order Josephus Gene McDonnell
139 Hypergeometric Functions and CDFs in J Ewart Shaw
143 Index to Advertisers (PDF)

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