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Volume 2, 1985–1986

N°1, July 1985

Page Article Author
3 EDITORIAL: The men who run VECTOR David Preedy
APL NEWS
5 General Correspondence
7 British APL Association News David Preedy
15 International news David Preedy
17 APL86 — ‘APL in Action’
18 Papers for APL 86 Anthony Camacho
19 News from sustaining members Steve Lyus
24 APL product guide Steve Lyus
39 Booklist
40 Product reviews David Preedy
44 RECENT MEETINGS
45 Introductory Notes Adrian Smith
46 Nested arrays workshop Adrian Smith
48 The importance of being nested David Crossley
59 Mainframes, micros and co-existence Adrian Smith
60 My first date with Irma Graham Fieldsend
63 APL Statistics group
APL85
64 APL85 - a brief impression Dick Bowman
67 Report from APL85 - APL and the Future John Adams
68 Second thoughts on Seattle Dick Gray
69 Japanese APL on IBM 5550 ⚠ David Ziemann
70 Photographic review David Ziemann
78 GENERAL ARTICLES
79 An “APL” for the teacher Dick Gray
81 Steps toward a better Basic Anthony Camacho
84 Case-study: Dbase II at Bedford School Adrian Smith
91 TECHNICAL SECTION
92 Technical Editorial Barman & Ziemann
95 Technical Correspondence
97 Surely There Must be a Better Way Andrew Wiggins, Mark Bassett
99 Prize Competitions Barman & Ziemann
105  Prize Competition: Wrap Up (with Competition Rules) David Ziemann
108 A guide to APL2 Nested Arrays Norman Thomson
117 Operators and Nested Arrays in Dyalog APL John Scholes
123 Power to APL Hultin & Hagger
126 Contents of Volume 1
127 Back numbers of VECTOR

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N°2, October 1985

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Page Article Author
47 Recursion Revisited David Preedy
55 APL Lap-sized Computer Phil van Cleave
61 Do you Dig Keywords? Dick Gray
63 APLIM – Generalized Linear Models Jake Ansell
69 VSPC: for whom the bell tolls? Adrian Smith
97 APL2 or LISP Keppel, Kropp
109 Modelling Fuzzy Decisions Adrian Smith
115 QL/APL – a leap forward or back? F.H.D. van Batenburg, Prins
118 APL Linguistics Graeme Robertson

N°3, January 1986

Page Article Author
3 EDITORIAL: APL – USP or RIP? David Preedy
APL NEWS
5 Quick-reference diary David Preedy
7 General Correspondence
9 British APL Association news David Preedy
11  Education Officer’s report Dick Gray
12  Portsmouth Grammar School Romilly Cocking
13  News from sustaining members Steve Lyus
19 British Computer Society news Dick Bowman
21 APL Press Review Steve Lyus
23 APL Product Guide Steve Lyus
31 APL Booklist
33 Book reviews David Preedy
38 APL86 PREVIEW
RECENT MEETINGS
50 APL systems on Micros Eileen Dyson
51  Developments in PEFAC (PDF) Chris Staffurth
54  Corporate Planning at Laura Ashley (PDF) Adam Dakin
56  An Integrated Manufacturing System on a Local Area Network (PDF) Ed Shaw junior
57  Migration from Mainframe to Micro (PDF) John Birch
60 APL in Practice – Commercial Applications Bern King
60  A Sales Forecasting System Patrick Rushton
61  APL in Use with a Large Commerical Database Christine Brewster
63 APL Statistics Users Group Jake Ansell
65 Operational Research Conference – 1985 Adrian Smith
GENERAL ARTICLES
79 External Databases Katie Williamson & Geoff Wells
83 Why GKS is unsuitable for business graphics Martyn Adams
89 Steps to a better BASIC Anthony Camacho
TECHNICAL SECTION
93 Technical Editorial Jonathan Barman & David Ziemann
95 Technical Correspondence Sullivan, Buckland, Horton & Last
Competitions:
101  “Wrap up” result David Ziemann
104  “Test your skill” update David Ziemann
105  “My other car’s a Porsche” David Ziemann
107 Surely there must be a better way David Ziemann
109 Making effective use of GDDM and AP126 David Piper
118 A guide to using operators in APL2 Norman Thompson

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N°4, April 1986

Page Article Author
3 GUEST EDITORIAL: APL86 – Be there Dick Bowman
APL NEWS
5 General Correspondence Curtis Jones
6 Quick-reference diary David Preedy
7 British APL Association news Bowman & Camacho
11  News from sustaining members Steve Lyus
15 International APL news David Preedy
19 British Computer Society news Phil Goacher
31 APL Product Guide Steve Lyus
41 Software review – MicroSpan Anne Wilson & Steve Phillips
43 APL86 PREVIEW
67 RECENT MEETINGS
69 Computer Graphics ’85 Hollamby & Williamson
77 Expert Systems Conference Peter Davies
79 GENERAL ARTICLES
81 Case Study: APL as a System Development Language Christine Brewster
93 Imperial Group 5-year planning Steve Lyus
101 TECHNICAL SECTION
102 Technical Editorial Jonathan Barman & David Ziemann
103 Technical Correspondence Henriod, Sullivan, Vesperoni
105 Competitions: Range union result Jonathan Barman
109  “Watch your step” – New competition David Ziemann
111 Surely there must be a better way David Ziemann
111  Fuzzy look-up (PDF) Simon Barker
112  Phonetic searching (PDF) David Ziemann
115 APL Trivia: Life, the Universe ... ⚠ David Ziemann
115  Remarks on “Towards a better APL” (PDF) Claude Henriod
121 Introduction to Technical Articles
123 Migrating VS APL to APL2 under MVS/TSO Mark Lenihan
127 Running VS APL under TSO David Piper

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