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Volume 7, 1990–1991

N°1, July 1990

Page Article Author
EDITORIAL
3 Reliability of APL Systems Jonathan Barman
APL NEWS
5 Quick Reference Diary
7 APL Course Diary
9 General Correspondence (PDF)
9 British APL Association News Graham Parkhouse
12  News from Sustaining Members Alison Chatterton
17 The Education VECTOR Alan Sykes
19  Communications Alan Sykes
20  Function Sampling with I-APL Walter Spunde
27  More String Manipulations Alan Sykes
33 APL91: Conference Announcement Curtis Jones
REVIEWS
38 APL Product Guide Alison Chatterton
49 Dyalog APL for MS DOS Adrian Smith
54 Powertools/CUA Adrian Smith
57 Book Announcement: APL with a Mathematical Accent Norman Thomson
RECENT MEETINGS
60 Vendor Forum: 20th April 1990 Adrian Smith
SPECIAL FEATURE
67 J: An Informal Introduction Kenneth E. Iverson
GENERAL ARTICLES
80 The APL Statistics Library Project The ASL Team
90 Some Questions of Programming Style for the APL Statistical Library David Appleton
96 APL-2741 Adrian Smith
TECHNICAL SECTION
110 Hackers Corner: Lots More VGA Colours Adrian Smith
112 Technical Correspondence (PDF)
112  The Dangers of APL RISC programming... Bob Bykerk
113  VCAT in Sharp APL E.E. McDonnell
115  How to Kill More Cats... Norman Thomson
117  The power operator John Scholes
117  The INVERSE operator in APL2.5 I. Phelfritt (née Leigh)
118  The APL*PLUS ‘dead key’ Problem ... Cedric Heddle
119  The Falkoff Keyboard: a Franco-Belgian Response! Alain Delmotte
120  Surely There Must Be a Better Way... Adrian Smith
121  Speculations on Fermat Equations ... Anne D Wilson
124 APL Standards Update David Ziemann
127 A Survey of ⎕NC Joseph L.F. de Kerf
143 Index to Advertisers (PDF)
143 Submitting Material to Vector

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N°2, October 1990

Page Article Author
3 EDITORIAL: Namespaces Jonathan Barman
APL NEWS
5 Quick Reference Diary
7 APL Training Courses 1990-91
British APL Association News:
9  Outstanding Achievement Award David Eastwood
11  News from Sustaining Members Alison Chatterton
17 The Education VECTOR Alan Sykes
19  Puzzle Corner: Chess Board Pattern Alan Sykes
20  ‘DAYOFWEEK’: Education Vector 7.1 C.E. Williams
21  Reading ASCII files into I-APL J.C. Hines
24  Dbase and Lotus files into I-APL W J Smith
25  I-APL Constraints Walter G Spunde
27  Searching for Strings in Strings Alan Sykes
REVIEWS
33 APL Product Guide Alison Chatterton
43 APL Makes the Front Page in the USSR Anthony Camacho
RECENT MEETINGS
50 Packaged Workspaces in APL2 Nick Small
63 Packaged Workspaces and their Implications for Application Design Dave Piper
APL90: Conference News and Analysis
76 APL 90 and the Ideal APL Conference Anthony Camacho
80 A Personal View on APL 90 Ray Cannon
81 АПЛ in The Soviet Union John Searle
83 Reports on the Presentations The Vector Team
95 APL90 Reflections John Searle
97 Pictures at an Exhibition
99 A Dictionary of J ⚠ Ken Iverson
GENERAL ARTICLES
118 Densities Well Suited for Statistics Problems Dr Dietrich Trenkler
125 What’s Wrong with Parentheses? Joseph De Kerf
TECHNICAL SECTION
132 Hackers Corner: Unlocking in Dyalog APL Ray Cannon
133 Technical Correspondence (PDF)
133  Teaching nested arrays Dave Piper
135 Comparison Tolerance Explained Norman Thomson
138 Namespace Play Jonathan Barman
143 Index to Advertisers (PDF)

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N°3, January 1991

Page Article Author
3 EDITORIAL: Solving Problems with APL Jonathan Barman
APL NEWS
5 Quick Reference Diary
7 APL Training Courses 1991
8 General Correspondence (PDF)
8  APL conference on CIX Pan Pantziarka
British APL Association News:
9  Projects Report John Searle
10  Publicity Officer's Report Jonathan Martin
11  Thoughts on APL 1994 David Eastwood
13  News from Sustaining Members Alison Chatterton
17 The Education Vector Alan Sykes
19  Letters on String Manipulations in APL Alan Sykes
24  An APL SCRIPT Function Alan Sykes
27  A to B or not A to B? Alan Sykes
33 The Random Vector David Eastwood
35  ASL News and Status - December 1990 David Eastwood
36  The Genesis of ASL Tony O’Hagan
38  Within ASL - Basic Statistics
41  WAGS: a Graphics Specification Language for ASL Tony O’Hagan
REVIEWS
50 APL Product Guide Alison Chatterton
61 Windows 3: the Implications for APL Adrian Smith
65 First Catch your Function: the STSC Compiler Ray Cannon
68 APL*PLUS/PC Release 10 Jonathan Barman
RECENT MEETINGS
76 PostScript Graphics in APL Adrian Smith
93 Field Trip to Rowntree Mackintosh Sylvia Camacho
98 GENERAL ARTICLES
99 APL91 Update Charles Schulz
102 Soviet APL: a Historical Outline Alexei I. Miroshnikov
109 Object Oriented Programming and APL Zdenek V Jizba
TECHNICAL SECTION
125 Hackers Corner: Check that Disk! Adrian Smith
126 Technical Correspondence (PDF)
126  Workspace search function Peter Branson
127  Packaged Workspaces in APL2/370 Nicholas Small
128  PostScript Support for APL under Windows George MacLeod
130 Mice do it on the Mat Ray Cannon
136 Problems for APL Buffs (III) Zdenek V Jizba
143 Index to Advertisers (PDF)
Mandelbrot Sets (not online) Ray Cannon

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N°4, April 1991

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: a Babel of APL Dialects? Jonathan Barman
APL NEWS
Quick Reference Diary
British APL Association News:
 Recruitment Officer’s Report Jill Moss
 News from Sustaining Members Alison Chatterton
APL91 Abstracts
17 The Education Vector Alan Sykes
19  Shape, Ravel and Roll Walter Spunde
25  Execution Time (not online) Alan Sykes
33 The Random Vector David Eastwood
36  The Genesis of ASL (2) (not online) Tony O’Hagan
41  The Regression Shelf (not online) Alan Sykes
REVIEWS
52 APL Product Guide Alison Chatterton
62 ZARK: an APL Tutor (not online) Emily Timson
67 APL.68000 Level II (not online) Iain Hayward
74 APL*PLUS/PC PostScript Support Adrian Smith
RECENT MEETINGS
76 GSS Graphics with APL*PLUS/PC (not online) George MacLeod
78 The Ideal Screen Editor (not online) Anthony Camacho
83 APL Graphics - First Principles (not online) Graham Parkhouse
GENERAL ARTICLES
100 Writing Assembly Language Functions for ⎕NA (not online) Allan Gay
110 Mandelbrot Sets (not online) Ray Cannon
TECHNICAL SECTION
116 NED: A nesting editor for APL*PLUS/PC (not online) Olle Evero
119 Thoughts on f g h (not online) Maurice Jordan
126 Full Screen Methods with APL2 (not online) Peter Branson
133 A Note on the Match Function in APL (not online) Joseph L.F. De Kerf
138 The Steam-Hammer and the Fly Gerard A Langlet
143 Index to Advertisers