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Volume 6, 1989–1990

N°1, July 1989

Page Article Author
3 EDITORIAL: Peter Donnelly
APL NEWS
5 Quick Reference Diary
7 APL Course Diary
8 APL90 Information
13 British APL Association News Graham Parkhouse
14  Special Achievement Award to BA
18  News from Sustaining Members Alison Chatterton
23 The Education VECTOR Alan Sykes
25  Puzzle Corner Alan Sykes
25  APL Art Alan Sykes
27  Let a Child Loose in APL! Richard Smith (when aged 3)
29  The I-APL News Anthony Camacho
31  Numbers and Bases Alan Sykes
REVIEWS
39 APL Product Guide Cathy Dargue
51 The CIPS APL Toolkit Jonathan Barman
57 Using IBM's APL2 on the PC Anthony Camacho
61 Impressions: Dyalog APL for MS DOS Jonathan Martin
63 GENERAL ARTICLES
64 Printing APL Matrices Jerry M. Brennan
73 Personal Construct Analysis in APL Mike Williams
TECHNICAL SECTION: Error Trapping
90 Hackers Corner Adrian Smith
Error Trapping: Tutorial Introductions for ...
91  APL*PLUS (mainframe and PC) Dave Ziemann
96  APL.68000 David Eastwood
100  Dyalog APL Pauline Brand
110 A Direct Definition Handler Dave Ziemann
118 Semantic Class and Arrays of Functions David Piper
127 APL Printing from APL.68000 Iain Hayward
British APL Association Software Library
134 Order Form (PDF)
135 Index to Advertisers (PDF)

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N°2, October 1989

Page Article Author
3 EDITORIAL: Adrian Smith
APL NEWS
5 Quick Reference Diary
7 General Correspondence
7  Second Generation APLs - Comment on Items in Vector 5.4 N.J. Small
11 British APL Association News Graham Parkhouse
13  News from Sustaining Members Alison Chatterton
17 The Education VECTOR Alan Sykes
20  Review: “APL for the Maths Classroom” by Thomson Bill McLean
23  APL “RISC Programming Style” Gérard Langlet
25  Start Building your own Utilities Peter Branson
29  Meeting of the Board of I-APL and other Interested Parties on 6th August 1989 at the New York Hilton Sylvia Camacho
REVIEWS
33 APL Product Guide Alison Chatterton
44 New Product Announcements Adrian Smith
45 IBM's APL2 on the PC (16-bit) Dick Bowman
52 IBM's APL2 on the PC (32-bit) Nicholas Small
RECENT MEETINGS: APL89 in New York City
59 Introduction Adrian Smith
60 Conference Roundup Anthony Camacho
65 Statistics Tutorial Day Chris Brady
66 Conference Summary Peter Merritt
70 Notes on the Papers Camacho, Searle et al
101 Tutorial Sessions Jonathan Martin
106 The Exhibition photos by David Ziemann
108 The Bonfire of the Variables John Searle
110 APL90 Competition Jill Moss
113 TECHNICAL SECTION
114 Hackers Corner: 256 VGA Colours Adrian Smith
115 Technical Correspondence (PDF)
115  Hackers' Corner: DOS Environment Variables John Sullivan
115  More on Finding the Location of that PSP... Dave Phillips
117  Ambivalent Operators... Phil Last
118 APL Standards Update David Ziemann
123 Punctuation in APL Joseph De Kerf
140 Typesetting APL Adrian Smith
British APL Association Software Library
142 Order Form (PDF)
143 Index to Advertisers (PDF)

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N°3, January 1990

Page Article Author
3 EDITORIAL: Adrian Smith
APL NEWS
5 Quick Reference Diary
7 APL Course Diary
9 General Correspondence
9  Complaint about an advertisement Jill Moss
10  I-APL as a commercial enterprise Andrew Wiggins
11 British APL Association News Graham Parkhouse
12  News from Sustaining Members Alison Chatterton
17 The Education VECTOR Alan Sykes
19  Letter to the Editor R Weber
20  Puzzle/Problem Corner Alan Sykes
24  From Coin-tossing to the Weather Alan Sykes
31  I-APL News - December 1989 Anthony Camacho
33 APL90: Accepted Papers
REVIEWS
37 APL Product Guide Alison Chatterton
49 Is APL*PLUS Getting Overweight? Adrian Smith
51 A Tale of Two File Systems: Myriade for APL*PLUS and AFM for APL2/PC Adrian Smith
RECENT MEETINGS
57 Introduction Adrian Smith
59 The APL Statistics Library Conference at Greg-y-nog Alan Sykes
70 The BAPLA at British Airways Sylvia Camacho
73 Managing Multicurrency Accounting Peter Branson
76 APL for Financial Calculations D. O. Forfar
GENERAL ARTICLES
80 Symbolic Computation and Recursion Tony O'Hagan
TECHNICAL SECTION
90 Hackers Corner: Beware the M61 Adrian Smith
91 Technical Correspondence (PDF) Peter Branson et al
91  Is it APL2, or is it me? Peter Branson
93  More on Ambivalent Operators Dave Piper
94  Concern: a possible feedback Claude Henriod
97  Yet More on that Ambivalent Operator... Norman Thomson
100  VCAT: A Response Norman Thomson
102 Error Trapping in IPSA APL Peter Biddlecombe
109 Problems for APL Buffs Zdenek Jizba
113 Using the GEM File Selector in APL.68000 John Sullivan
117 A Vector Construction Kit Adrian Smith
122 A Note on Quad and Quote-Quad Joseph L.F. de Kerf
British APL Association Software Library
124 Submission Details / Order Form (PDF)
127 Index to Advertisers (PDF)

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N°4, April 1990

Page Article Author
3 EDITORIAL: a Network Survival Kit Adrian Smith
APL NEWS
5 Quick Reference Diary
7 APL Course Diary
9 British APL Association News Graham Parkhouse
11  News from Sustaining Members Alison Chatterton
17 The Education VECTOR Alan Sykes
19  Communications Alan Sykes
22  The Card Collecting Problem Norman Thomson
24  Doing Useful Things with Strings Alan Sykes
30  A Selection of Affordable APL Systems
33 APL90: Invitation and Abstracts
REVIEWS
44 APL Product Guide Alison Chatterton
54 APL*PLUS/PC Release 9 Adrian Smith
58 APL2.5 for the Microwriter AgendA Adrian Smith
RECENT MEETINGS
60 Introduction Adrian Smith
62 Arthur Whitney on A Ed Shaw
64 Workshop on Defined Operators John Scholes et al
71 A Hypertext Interface to the Oracle Adrian Smith
GENERAL ARTICLES
78 A Design Framework for APL Systems Dave Piper
TECHNICAL SECTION
92 Hackers Corner: the Falkoff Dual Keyboard Adrian Smith
94  The M61 Problem: a Partial Resolution
95 Technical Correspondence (PDF) Dave Piper et al
95  Yet more VCAT ... Peter Branson
96  Is Function Ambivalence a Good Thing? David Piper
98  Error Trapping or Event Handling? Richard Nabavi
99  APL and MS Word for HP LaserJet Rex Swain
101 A New Development Environment in Dyalog APL John Scholes
105 Error Trapping in APL2/PC Norman Thomson
116 Comments on APL-2741 Adin Falkoff
117 Problems for APL Buffs (II) Zdenek Jizba
123 A Note on Comparison Tolerance R.G. Williams & R.A. Green
125 Index to Vol 6
126 Goodbye, and thanks for all the Fish!
127 Index to Advertisers (PDF)

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