Introduction to General Articles
Vector 3:3, page 93
Transcribed from the printed issue; not yet reviewed. Read it in the PDF of the issue, page 93
This issue of VECTOR contains two articles of a non-technical nature.
The first article continues our extracts from Anthony Camacho’s series Steps to a better BASIC first published in Datalink. This series explains some of the concepts behind, and advantages of, APL to an audience brought up on the staple diet of BASIC available on most microcomputers. Anthony’s article is reprinted by kind permission of Datalink magazine.
Many of you will remember Graeme Robertson for his erudite and entertaining offerings at a number of BAA meetings. Graeme recently left I P Sharp Associates to work for a PhD in particle physics at Durham University, but before he left he held a seminar, intriguingly titled ‘APL3’. (Maybe soon we’ll reach APL86). Graham Parkhouse attended the seminar, and as well as telling us about it, philosophises on the future directions of APL.