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Volume 3, 1986–1987

N°1, July 1986

Page Article Author
3 EDITORIAL: The Joys of Spring? David Preedy
APL NEWS
5 Quick-reference APL diary
7 General Correspondence
13 British APL Association news
15  New Committee
17  News from sustaining members Steve Lyus
21 British Computer Society news Phil Goacher
23 International APL news David Preedy
27 APL Press Review David Preedy
29 APL Product Guide Steve Lyus
37 APL Book List
39 Book Reviews Paul Chapman
41 Software Review (AFM) Adrian Smith
44 PC Benchmarks updated Adrian Smith
45 Product Review (PortaAPL) Normand Montour
51 PC Graphics Cards (EGA and PGC) Martyn Adams
57 RECENT MEETINGS
59 Introductory Notes Adrian Smith
60 APL and OR (17th Jan 86) (PDF)
62 Computing Environments for OR Tony Cooper
65 Managing APLers (21st March 86)
67 GENERAL ARTICLES
68 Case Study: VSPC – The Last Rites Adrian Smith
75 One Small Step for APL ... David Moffat
79 A Sharper Focus on APL Sylvia Camacho
93 Steps to a Better BASIC Anthony Camacho
95 TECHNICAL SECTION
97 Technical Editorial Barman & Ziemann
99 Technical Correspondence
101 Surely There Must Be a Better Way Ziemann and Smith
101  Correcting the UK APL*PLUS/PC Kbd Adrian Smith
105 Prize Competition: Get your Directories Updated David Ziemann
107 Introduction to Contributed Articles David Ziemann
109 Quick and Dirty Apportionment Robert Pullman
113 Fast Fibbing John Sullivan
115 A Plea for Naming Conventions Paul Chapman
119 Quad-WIN in APL*PLUS Release-5 David Piper
124 APL Trivia Mark Bassett
128 CONTENTS OF VOLUMES 1 AND 2

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N°2, October 1986

Page Article Author
3 GUEST EDITORIAL: APL86 – What Next? Dick Bowman
APL NEWS
5 Quick Reference APL Diary
7 General Correspondence
15 British APL Association News (PDF)
15  Report and Accounts
17  News from Sustaining Members Steve Lyus
21 British Computer Society news David Preedy
23 International APL News David Preedy
27 APL Product Guide Steve Lyus
36 APL Book List
37 The Education VECTOR Norman Thomson
43 RECENT MEETINGS (AGM)
44 Introductory Notes Adrian Smith
45 APL and Relational Database Phil Chastney
47 The Split in APL Ken Iverson
51 APL-86 CONFERENCE REPORTS
52 Photo Montage
59 Opening Plenary – CORE APL Ken Iverson
61 Product Forums David Preedy
65 A.I. at APL86 Neil Mitchison
67 The Lighter Moments of APL86 Philip Goacher
69 Pick of the Week (1) Roy Sykes Jr.
71 APL86 Exhibition Report Martin Malin
77 Pick of the Week (2) Adrian Smith
80 APL86 Fun and Games Aelred Tobin
81 Implementations of Enhanced APLs Anthony Camacho
86 Quotes of the Week David Ziemann
87 Thoughts on APL Design Bob Pullman
89 Closing Plenary Anthony Camacho
91 TECHNICAL SECTION
92 Stop Press: Amstrad PC1512 Adrian Smith
93 Technical Editorial Barman & Ziemann
94 Technical Correspondence
95 Prize Competition (Result) David Ziemann
96 APL-86 Competitions Review ⚠ David Ziemann
108 Prize Competition (Caption Contest) David Ziemann
110 APL-86 Standards Report David Ziemann
112 APL/PC 2.0 Auxiliary Processors Manuel Alfonseca
115 Development of APL Through Standardisation David Livingstone
123 Using Quad-FX with Auxiliary Processors David Piper
127 Public Domain Interpreter (Proposal) Anthony Camacho
131 Comparison Tolerance Dick Gray
134 PUBLIC DOMAIN SOFTWARE LIBRARY
138  (Keyword Index)

⚠ The transcription is doubtful or missing; its page says why.

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N°3, January 1987

Page Article Author
3 EDITORIAL: Train up a child ... David Preedy
APL NEWS
5 Quick-reference diary
7 APL Course dates
9 General Correspondence Barnetson, Branson, Barker
British APL Association News
13  Committee News Dick Bowman
14  Sustaining members Steve Lyus
19 International news – Journal exchange David Preedy
21 QL/APL User Group
23 APL Product Guide Steve Lyus
32 APL Book list
33 The Education VECTOR Norman Thomson
35 PRODUCT AND BOOK REVIEWS
36 Applied Mathematics for Programmers and Mathematics and Programming – Ken Iverson Simon Garland
38 Introduction to APL – Howard Peelle Romilly Cocking
40 Comparing Computer Languages Peter Branson
47 APL 68000 on the Atari ST Paul Chapman
51 APL*PLUS/PC release 6.0 Martyn Adams
54 APL.68000 for the Apple Macintosh Mark Bassett
RECENT MEETINGS
60 The I-APL project Camacho, Ziemann, Thomson & Chapman
66 APL Debate: What is APL Thinking?
77 Idioms & problem-solving in APL2 Alan Graham
GENERAL ARTICLES
95 Steps to a better BASIC Anthony Camacho
97 Time to think about the future direction of APL Graham Parkhouse
TECHNICAL SECTION
102 Editorial: Interpreters for debuggers David Ziemann
104 Technical Correspondence Mitchison, Piper, Jackson
107 Competition result – Watch Your Step David Ziemann
111 Surely there must be a better way – Ambi-valence David Ziemann
115 APL Trivia – Funny dates David Ziemann
117 Introduction to Contributed Articles
118 I-APL Technical Specification David Ziemann
125 Command-driven interface for BDAM and QSAM APs using APL2 under TSO ⚠ David Piper
133 PUBLIC DOMAIN SOFTWARE LIBRARY

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N°4, April 1987

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: 3 years on David Preedy
APL NEWS
5 Quick-reference diary David Preedy
7 APL course diary
General Correspondence Thomson, Fiegenschue, Branson, Montour & Wiggins
British APL Association News
 Notice of 1987 Annual General Meeting Anthony Camacho
 Minutes of 1986 A.G.M. Anthony Camacho
 News from Sustaining members Cathy Dargue
International APL News David Preedy
 APL87—Dallas, U.S.A. Neville Holmes
 APL88 Sydney, Australia David Preedy
 International APL society news
The Education VECTOR Norman Thomson
REVIEWS
APL Press Review David Preedy
APL Product Guide Cathy Dargue
RECENT MEETINGS
56 The Outside World (not online) Dick Bowman
 APL 86
 APL enhancements don’t help the spread of APL
 APL Entrepreneurs
GENERAL ARTICLES
95 Steps to a better BASIC Anthony Camacho
97 Coming out of the closet (not online) Dick Bowman
100 The Programmer as Designer, The Designer as Detective (not online) Robert Pullman
102 The Road Not Travelled (not online) Sylvia Camacho
TECHNICAL SECTION
108 Technical Editorial: Mind your language Jonathan Barman
109 Technical Correspondence Piper, Wiggins
111 APL Trivia: Wimbock-APL Application Notes (not online) Dan Wimbock (!)
114 Prize Competition: Sweeten your Combinations (not online) Derek Wilson
115 Introduction to Technical Contributions David Ziemann
117 Polynomial Curve Fitting (not online) JB Douglas
120 More on “Fast Fibbing” (not online) Joseph De Kerf
121 More Fibbing (not online) Alan Sykes
123 Using Name Association for Data Translation (not online) David Piper
129 Diary of an implementer (not online) Paul Chapman
139 PUBLIC DOMAIN SOFTWARE LIBRARY