Volume 8, 1991–1992

N°1, July 1991 Vector 8:2 cover

N°2, October 1991 Vector 8:3 cover

N°3, January 1992 Vector 8:4 cover

N°4, April 1992

N°1, July 1991¶

Page	Article	Author
3	EDITORIAL: Windows and APL	Jonathan Barman
	APL NEWS
5	Quick Reference Diary
7	General Correspondence (PDF)
7	SIGAPL is international	Dick Bowman
7	“APL Under Windows”	Adrian Smith
	British APL Association News:
8	Summary of Accounts	Nicholas Small
11	News from Sustaining Members	Alison Chatterton
17	The Education Vector	Alan Sykes
19	Letter from Julian Vincent	Julian Vincent
19	Letter from Manfred Storn	Manfred Storn
20	Multiple Curve Fitting	C.E. Williams
20	I-APL News for Education Vector 8.1	Anthony Camacho
22	Let’s Integrate – Using APL	Alan Sykes
30	Labelling	Alan Sykes
33	The Random Vector	David Eastwood
36	Beaton’s Recipe for Least Squares	Jake Ansell
45	ASL: The Basic Statistics Volume	Jake Ansell
	REVIEWS
49	APL Product Guide	Alison Chatterton
59	Zark Update	Gary A. Bergquist
59	IBM Announces APL2 for the RISC System/6000
60	The Art of Amazement
61	SovAPL 5th Anniversary Conference	TM Olsen & A Delmotte
66	Dyalog APL/X	John Searle
73	APL*PLUS II Release 3	Duncan Pearson
	GENERAL ARTICLES
78	Why I Like Windows	Richard & Adrian Smith
85	Integrated System for Demographic Investigations	Victor V. Ponomaryov
88	Experimental Design	Stephen Wynn
	TECHNICAL SECTION
92	Hackers Corner: Proportional Tables in PostScript	Adrian Smith
95	Technical Correspondence (PDF)
95	Stirling numbers by recursion	Norman Thomson
97	Working with Windows	David Eastwood
107	Programming for Events in Dyalog	Peter Donnelly
125	An Interface Between APL2 and the X Window System	JR Jensen and KA Beaty
143	Index to Advertisers (PDF)

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N°2, October 1991¶

Page	Article	Author
3	Guest Editorial: Wanted: Programmer Support	Gregg Taylor
	APL NEWS
5	Quick Reference Diary
7	APL92 Program Statement
11	General Correspondence (PDF)
11	X-Windows interfaces from APL	Richard Nabavi
	British APL Association News:
13	News from Sustaining Members	Alison Chatterton
17	The Education Vector	Alan Sykes
19	IF-THEN-ELSE (Education Vector, April 1991, p.27)	Robert L. Briechle
20	Labelling (Education Vector, July 1991, p.30)	Andy Pole
20	Let's Integrate - Using APL (Education Vector, July 1991, p.22)	Tony O'Hagan
21	More String Manipulations (Education Vector, July 1990)	Peter Branson
22	Science Education in California	Zdenek Jizba
25	Recreation with Transcendental Numbers	Gérard Langlet
27	Local Variables and the State Indicator	Alan Mayer
33	The Random Vector	David Eastwood
35	ASL at APL91
37	ASL: A Basic Statistics Volume Tutorial	Jake Ansell
44	Stirling Numbers – a Case Study	David Appleton
49	Gregynog 91
49	ASL - where have we got to and where do we go from here?	Tony O'Hagan
55	RECENT MEETINGS: APL91 at Stanford
56	Conference Roundup
61	Sunday 4th Aug (Polivka and Zeidner Tutorials)
65	Monday 5th Aug
70	Tuesday 6th Aug
76	Panel “Is J a Dialect of APL?”
	Wednesday 7th Aug
81	Panel “25 Year Perspective”
84	Panel “APL as an Entrepreneurial Tool”
87	Thursday 8th Aug
93	Survival Strategies for APL Puddle-dwellers	Adrian Smith
95	GENERAL ARTICLES
96	Power Reduction	Graham Parkhouse
99	The Legacy of the Typewriter	Richard Nabavi
105	Suggested Standards for a Component File System at a Commercial APL Site	Ray Cannon
111	ASWI Programming Standards	FHDv.Batenburg et al
	TECHNICAL SECTION
125	Hackers’ Corner: Fast Filing with ∆pack	Adrian Smith
127	A Case Story About Moving an APL-application	Allan Zenth
130	Desk Top Publishing on the Cheap	Richard Hill
132	Training the Mouse (in APL*PLUS)	Alain Delmotte
135	How STSC’s ⎕MF can help in testing APL workspaces	Ray Cannon
137	A Look at Residues	Stephen Wynn
143	Index to Advertisers (PDF)

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N°3, January 1992¶

Page	Article	Author
3	Editorial: J is for January	Jonathan Barman
	APL NEWS
5	Quick Reference Diary
7	British APL Association Meetings for 1992
8	APL91 Final Report	Charles Schultz
11	General Correspondence (PDF)
11	Everybody is welcome	Phil Last
	British APL Association News:
12	News from Sustaining Members	Alison Chatterton
17	The Education Vector	Alan Sykes
19	Introducing APL to Teachers	Zdenek Jizba
19	Simpson's rule	Neil Sheldon
23	Curve Fitting in APL	David Appleton
29	APL Printing on some Star Printers with I-APL	Anthony Camacho, Anthony Goodman
33	The Random Vector	David Eastwood
35	The 3rd APL Statistics Library Conference Held at Gregynog 30 September to 2 October 1991	Anthony Camacho
46	ASL Standards	David Eastwood
52	Differences in Second Generation APLs	Maurice Jordan
	REVIEWS SECTION
57	APL Product Guide	Alison Chatterton
67	Book Review: Programming in J	Keith Smillie
70	APL and J: Some Benchmarks	Malcolm Rigg
	RECENT MEETINGS
74	Panel Design: An APL Programmer’s Toolkit	David Crossley
	SPECIAL FEATURE: J is for January
90	J Questionnaire	Jonathan Barman
94	J Questions and Answers
94	Questions (PDF)	Jonathan Barman
94	Answers (PDF)	Roger Hui and Ken Iverson
101	Hooks and Forks and the Teaching of Elementary Arithmetic	Donald B. McIntyre
124	Cross-clocks in J	Paul Chapman
	TECHNICAL SECTION
132	Hackers Corner: More about VGA Colours	Adrian Smith
136	Technical Correspondence (PDF)	De Kerf and Spunde
136	A Note on CPU Time Monitoring	Joseph L.F. De Kerf
138	Horner's Method	Walter G Spunde
140	Arrays with Style	Adrian Smith
143	Index to Advertisers (PDF)

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N°4, April 1992¶

Page	Article	Author
3	Guest Editorial: Now is the Time for APL	Peter Donnelly
	APL NEWS
5	Quick Reference Diary
6	APL Course Diary
7	General Correspondence (PDF)
7	Comments on “ASWI Programming Standards”	Ray Cannon
	British APL Association News
9	Minutes of AGM	Anthony Camacho
10	Data Protection Act
11	News from Sustaining Members	Gill Smith
17	The Education Vector	Alan Mayer
20	APL and the Birthday Problem	Alan Sykes
23	Review of I-APL for the Macintosh	Bill McLean
25	How Much Water Under the Bridge?	Alan Mayer
26	Pass Me Another Diagonal Slice, Please!	Alan Mayer
33	The Random Vector	David Eastwood
35	ASL Status Report	David Eastwood
36	BATS	David Eastwood
37	Simulating Sampling Distributions	Dietrich Trenkler
43	Implementing Cardano’s Rule	Dietrich Trenkler
	REVIEWS SECTION
	APL92
49	Provisional Programme and Abstracts
57	Notes on Visit to St Petersburg	Anthony Camacho
61	APL Product Guide	compiled by Gill Smith
72	IBM Systems Journal (APL Edition)	reviewed by Adrian Smith
76	Byte ‘Classic Languages’ Article on APL	reviewed by Adrian Smith
77	APL Goes Fuzzy	previewed by Oleg Pöhl
81	FEATURING J
82	Typesetting J: some Comments	R.H. Oates
83	Comments on J Questionnaire	Roger Hui and Ken Iverson
84	Comments on Power Reduction and Stirling Numbers	Ken Iverson
87	Iverson’s Arithmetic reviewed	K.W. Smillie
91	Verb Tables	Roger K.W. Hui
97	Using J with External Data	Donald McIntyre
	TECHNICAL SECTION
112	Hackers Corner: Reshaping your Mouse	Adrian Smith
113	Graph-plotting in I-APL/Mac 1.2	Ian A. Clark
119	Writing Operators for Dyalog APL	Phil Last
136	Author Index Vols 1-8
142	APL92 Registration Form (PDF)
144	British APL Association Membership Renewal Form (PDF)

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