Full Index to Issues 1.1 to 4.4
Vector 4:4, page 146
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VECTOR - Index to Back Numbers
Vols 1 - 4 inclusive¶
Meetings & Conferences:¶
| Title | Author(s) | Vol | No | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APL and Graphics (1984) | 1 | 1 | 35 | |
| A Graphic Vision of APL | Graeme Robertson | 1 | 1 | 36 |
| APL and Graphics (1985) | 1 | 4 | 63 | |
| APL and GKS | Richard Nabavi | 1 | 4 | 63 |
| Duck a la Carte | Peter Donnelly | 1 | 4 | 65 |
| Getting the Best out of GDDM | Adrian Smith | 1 | 4 | 65 |
| APL and Graphics (1987) | 4 | 1 | 59 | |
| CGI Graphics in Dyalog APL | Pete Donnelly | 4 | 1 | 59 |
| GDDM / AP126 on APL.68000 | David Eastwood | 4 | 1 | 59 |
| WIMPS and Bach on the Amiga | Richard Nabavi | 4 | 1 | 60 |
| 3D Facial Animation | Keith Waters | 4 | 1 | 60 |
| Graphics in the Boardroom | David Preedy | 4 | 1 | 63 |
| APL & Knowledge-based Systems | 1 | 3 | 48 | |
| Expert Systems | M.J.Winfield | 1 | 3 | 49 |
| APL in O.R. | 3 | 1 | 60 | |
| Computing Environments for OR | Tony Cooper | 3 | 1 | 62 |
| An APL Banking Application | Per Hultin | 3 | 1 | 65 |
| APL in the Information Centre | 1 | 1 | 41 | |
| Setting up a Company I.C. | Romilly Cocking | 1 | 1 | 42 |
| The Global Information Centre | Fred Perkins | 1 | 1 | 45 |
| APL in Practice | 2 | 3 | 60 | |
| Sales Forecasting System | Patrick Rushton | 2 | 3 | 60 |
| Large Commercial Database | Christine Brewster | 2 | 3 | 61 |
| APL Statistics Users Group | Jake Ansell | 2 | 3 | 63 |
| APL Systems on Micros | 2 | 3 | 50 | |
| Developments in PEFAC | Chris Staffurth | 2 | 3 | 51 |
| Corporate Planning | Adam Dakin | 2 | 3 | 54 |
| Integrated Manufacturing | Ed Shaw | 2 | 3 | 56 |
| Migration from Mainframe | John Birch | 2 | 3 | 57 |
| APL vs Packages & 4GLs | 1 | 2 | 48 | |
| Are 4GLs killing APL? | Desmond Booth | 1 | 2 | 49 |
| APL84 in Focus | Smith, Bowman & Lyus | 1 | 2 | 52 |
| An APL Compiler | Roy Sykes | 1 | 2 | 54 |
| Dyalog APL | John Scholes | 1 | 2 | 54 |
| Ampere: a Portable APL m/c | Philip van Cleave | 1 | 2 | 55 |
| APL2 | Jim Brown | 1 | 2 | 56 |
| The APL Machine | Jim Ryan | 1 | 2 | 57 |
| APL85 Reports | ||||
| A brief Impression | Dick Bowman | 2 | 1 | 64 |
| Report from APL85 | John Adams | 2 | 1 | 67 |
| Second Thoughts on Seattle | Dick Gray | 2 | 1 | 68 |
| Photographic Review | David Ziemann | 2 | 1 | 70 |
| APL86 (Manchester): Reports | ||||
| Opening Plenery: Core APL | Ken Iverson | 3 | 2 | 59 |
| Product Forums | David Preedy | 3 | 2 | 61 |
| A.I. at APL86 | Neil Mitchison | 3 | 2 | 65 |
| The Lighter Moments | Philip Goacher | 3 | 2 | 67 |
| Pick of the Week(1) | Roy Sykes Jnr | 3 | 2 | 69 |
| Exhibition Report | Martin Malin | 3 | 2 | 71 |
| Pick of the Week(2) | Adrian Smith | 3 | 2 | 77 |
| Fun and Games | Aelred Tobin | 3 | 2 | 80 |
| Enhanced APLs | Anthony Camacho | 3 | 2 | 81 |
| Quotes of the Week | David Ziemann | 3 | 2 | 86 |
| Thoughts on APL Design | Bob Pullman | 3 | 2 | 87 |
| Problem Solving in APL2 | Alan Graham | 3 | 3 | 77 |
| Closing Plenary | Anthony Camacho | 3 | 2 | 89 |
| Debates ... | ||||
| What is APL Thinking | 3 | 3 | 66 | |
| Enhancements don't Help ... | 3 | 4 | 70 | |
| Panel - APL Entrepreneurs | 3 | 4 | 85 | |
| APL87 (Dallas): | ||||
| Report | John Sullivan | 4 | 1 | 17 |
| Photographs | David Ziemann | 4 | 1 | 19 |
| APL88 (Sydney): Conference Reports | ||||
| ...... | 4 | 4 | 55 | |
| Communicating with APL | 1 | 1 | 48 | |
| Networking APL micros | Richard Nabavi | 1 | 1 | 49 |
| Interfacing Viewdata & APL | John Pym | 1 | 1 | 59 |
| IBM-based APL communications | Tim Perry | 1 | 1 | 62 |
| Computer Graphics '85 | Williamson & Hollamby | 2 | 4 | 69 |
| Expert Systems '85 | Peter Davies | 2 | 4 | 77 |
| Expert Sys: Practical Applications | Adrian Smith | 4 | 1 | 49 |
| From Mainframes to Smaller Machines | Paul Smith | 4 | 3 | 57 |
| I-APL: Under the Bonnet | Paul Chapman | 4 | 3 | 48 |
| IPSA Users' Meeting 1984 | Adrian Smith | 1 | 3 | 65 |
| Mainframes, Micros & Co-existence | 2 | 1 | 59 | |
| My first date with IRMA | Graham Fieldsend | 2 | 1 | 60 |
| Nested Arrays Workshop | 2 | 1 | 46 | |
| Importance of being Nested | David Crossley | 2 | 1 | 48 |
| Origins | Graham Parkhouse | 4 | 3 | 67 |
| O.R. Conference 85 | Adrian Smith | 2 | 3 | 65 |
| Quality Control in APL | 4 | 1 | 54 | |
| A Formal Approach | Chris Campen | 4 | 1 | 54 |
| QC in the Sys. Dev. Cycle | Linda Kindred | 4 | 1 | 55 |
| Panel Discussion | Anthony Camacho | 4 | 1 | 57 |
| Surviving in APL/XX | 1 | 3 | 60 | |
| The I-APL Project | Camacho, Thomson et al | 3 | 3 | 60 |
| The Outside World | Dick Bowman | 3 | 4 | 56 |
| The Split in APL | Ken Iverson | 3 | 2 | 47 |
| What's New for 1985 | Dick Bowman | 1 | 3 | 63 |
| Windows and Pop-up Menus | Adrian Smith | 4 | 2 | 62 |
General Articles:¶
| Title | Author(s) | Vol | No | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APL and Graphics Standards | Dick Bowman | 1 | 2 | 75 |
| APL for the Teacher | Dick Gray | 2 | 1 | 79 |
| APLIM - Generalized Linear Models | Jake Ansell | 2 | 2 | 63 |
| APL in a Japanese High School | Makoto Kikkawa | 4 | 4 | 26 |
| APL Lap-sized Computer | Phil van Cleave | 2 | 2 | 55 |
| Attitudes to APL in Higher Ed'n | David Eastwood | 4 | 4 | 91 |
| Bell's Inequality | Sylvia Camacho | 4 | 1 | 73 |
| Coming out of the Closet | Dick Bowman | 3 | 4 | 97 |
| Demonstration of Direct Defn | Anthony Camacho | 4 | 3 | 95 |
| Do you Dig Keywords? | Dick Gray | 2 | 2 | 61 |
| Expcheck: Intelligent Diagnostics | Mike Williams | 4 | 2 | 83 |
| External Databases | Williamson & Wells | 2 | 3 | 79 |
| FGL: Fifth Generation Language | Robert Bittlestone | 1 | 1 | 89 |
| Financial Planning at Imperial | Steve Lyus | 2 | 4 | 93 |
| Finished Goods Inventory Control | Barrie Webster | 4 | 2 | 70 |
| Future Directions of APL | Graham Parkhouse | 3 | 3 | 97 |
| GKS - Opportunity for APL | Richard Nabavi | 1 | 2 | 78 |
| Graphics for Decision-makers | David Preedy | 1 | 2 | 83 |
| I-APL: History & Achievements | Anthony Camacho | 4 | 3 | 89 |
| Information Centre as Strategy | Fred Perkins | 1 | 4 | 90 |
| Membership Survey | Christina McCree | 4 | 1 | 79 |
| Menu-oriented dialogue | Gosta Olavi | 1 | 3 | 83 |
| Meta-APL: an APL Pre-processor | Tickner & Oswald | 4 | 2 | 72 |
| Mr Babbage's Secret | Ole Franksen | 1 | 2 | 61 |
| One Small Step for APL | David Moffat | 3 | 1 | 75 |
| QL/APL - popularising APL | David Eastwood | 1 | 4 | 81 |
| Recursion Revisited | David Preedy | 2 | 2 | 47 |
| Re-inventing Man | Robert Bittlestone | 1 | 4 | 75 |
| Sharper Focus on APL | Sylvia Camacho | 3 | 1 | 79 |
| Steps Towards a Better BASIC (1) | Anthony Camacho | 1 | 1 | 77 |
| (part 2) | 1 | 2 | 73 | |
| (part 3) | 1 | 4 | 95 | |
| (part 4) | 2 | 1 | 81 | |
| (part 5) | 2 | 3 | 89 | |
| (part 6) | 3 | 1 | 93 | |
| (part 7) | 3 | 3 | 95 | |
| (part 8) | 3 | 4 | 95 | |
| Teaching Stats in Univ. Coll. Swansea | Mayer & Sykes | 4 | 3 | 74 |
| The Charlton Chase Package | Paul Barnetson | 4 | 1 | 70 |
| The paper they dared not print | Anon | 1 | 1 | 87 |
| The Programmer as Designer ... | Robert Pullman | 3 | 4 | 100 |
| The Road not Travelled | Sylvia Camacho | 3 | 4 | 102 |
| Towards a Teachable Interface | Adrian Smith | 1 | 3 | 91 |
| Why APL? | Robert Bittlestone | 1 | 1 | 65 |
| Why GKS is Unsuitable ... | Martyn Adams | 2 | 3 | 83 |
| XPL - an Expert Systems Framework | Robert Bittlestone | 1 | 2 | 65 |
Case-studies:¶
| Title | Author(s) | Vol | No | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bedford School | Adrian Smith | 2 | 1 | 84 |
| Imperial Group Graphics | Adrian Smith | 1 | 2 | 89 |
| "Matchmakers" Simulation | Adrian Smith | 1 | 1 | 79 |
| PATTIE: a Practical Expert System | Christopher Harvey | 1 | 3 | 101 |
| (part 2) | 1 | 4 | 98 | |
| VSPC: for whom the bell tolls? | Adrian Smith | 2 | 2 | 69 |
| Whitbread: Large Scale Database | Christine Brewster | 2 | 4 | 81 |
Technical Articles:¶
| Title | Author(s) | Vol | No | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An APL Dialogue | Graeme Robertson | 1 | 3 | 135 |
| APL and Partitioned Data | Jonathan Barman | 1 | 1 | 129 |
| APL Linguistics | Graeme Robertson | 2 | 2 | 118 |
| APL Trivia - Loopy, Quine & Turing | Mark Bassett | 3 | 1 | 124 |
| APL Trivia - Funny Dates | David Ziemann | 3 | 3 | 115 |
| APL Trivia - Wimbock APL | Dick Bowman | 3 | 4 | 111 |
| APLpip | L. Llewellyn-Jones | 1 | 2 | 109 |
| APL/PC2 with Auxiliary Processors | Manuel Alfonseca | 3 | 2 | 112 |
| APL2 or LISP | Keppel & Kropp | 2 | 2 | 97 |
| APL86 Competition Review | David Ziemann | 3 | 2 | 96 |
| APL86 Standards Report | David Ziemann | 3 | 2 | 110 |
| Command-driven Interface for BDAM & QSAM | David Piper | 3 | 3 | 118 |
| Comparison Tolerance | Dick Grey | 3 | 2 | 131 |
| Complex numbers in APL | Alan Hawkes | 1 | 1 | 107 |
| Development of APL through Standardization | David Livingstone | 3 | 2 | 115 |
| Diary of an Implementer | Paul Chapman | 3 | 4 | 129 |
| DIF-file interface | Romilly Cocking | 1 | 4 | 149 |
| Dissembling | Allan Gay | 4 | 4 | 103 |
| DIY Iconography | Adrian Smith | 4 | 4 | 148 |
| Efficiency in APL | David Ziemann | 4 | 4 | 111 |
| Fast Fibbing | John Sullivan | 3 | 1 | 113 |
| Fast Fibbing (more) | Joseph de Kerf | 3 | 4 | 120 |
| Fast Fibbing (more) | Alan Sykes | 3 | 4 | 121 |
| Faster File Input in TSO | John Sullivan | 4 | 1 | 99 |
| GDDM and AP126 | David Piper | 2 | 3 | 109 |
| Generic Read & Replace in IPSA | Robert Pullman | 1 | 3 | 128 |
| Go Pack your Knapsack | Norman Thomson | 4 | 2 | 103 |
| Guide to APL2 Nested Arrays | Norman Thompson | 2 | 1 | 108 |
| Hackers Corner: | ||||
| Correcting the UK APL*PLUS/PC Kbd | Adrian Smith | 3 | 1 | 102 |
| Custom Banners in APL*PLUS/PC | Adrian Smith | 4 | 3 | 103 |
| Poking the DOS Keyboard Buffer | Adrian Smith | 4 | 2 | 92 |
| I-APL Technical Specification | David Ziemann | 3 | 3 | 118 |
| IBM's Logic Algorithms in Dyalog APL | Prys-Williams | 4 | 1 | 104 |
| Interfacing to PC Assembler (I) | P. Wortham | 4 | 2 | 107 |
| PC Assembler (II) | P. Wortham | 4 | 3 | 119 |
| International APL standard | David Ziemann | 1 | 1 | 143 |
| ISO Standards update | David Ziemann | 1 | 2 | 125 |
| Migration to APL2 | Mark Lenihan | 2 | 4 | 123 |
| Missionaries & Cannibals (Comp) | Anne Wilson | 4 | 4 | 106 |
| Modelling Fuzzy Decisions | Adrian Smith | 2 | 2 | 109 |
| Moving Data from 1-2-3 to APL | Michael Carmichael | 1 | 4 | 130 |
| Numeric Integration & Probability | Alan Hawkes | 1 | 2 | 117 |
| Operators & Nested Arrays | John Scholes | 2 | 1 | 117 |
| Plea for Naming Conventions | Paul Chapman | 3 | 1 | 115 |
| Polynomial Curve Fitting | J.B. Douglas | 3 | 4 | 117 |
| Power to APL | Hultin & Hagger | 2 | 1 | 123 |
| Public Domain Interpreter (Proposal) | Anthony Camacho | 3 | 2 | 127 |
| QL/APL - a leap forward or back? | van Batenburg & Prins | 2 | 2 | 115 |
| Quad-WIN in APL*PLUS/PC Vn.5 | David Piper | 3 | 1 | 119 |
| Quick & Dirty Apportionment | Bob Pullman | 3 | 1 | 109 |
| Quotition Jottings | Micheal Carmicheal | 1 | 3 | 156 |
| Random Contingency Tables | A.G. Prys Williams | 1 | 3 | 160 |
| SCREENIO: IBM full-screen manager | David Doherty | 1 | 1 | 121 |
| Statistical Computing with APL | Alan Hawkes | 1 | 2 | 113 |
| Surely there must be a better way | David Ziemann | 3 | 1 | 101 |
| Surely .... ambivalence | David Ziemann | 3 | 3 | 111 |
| Sweeten your Combinations (Comp) | Derek Wilson | 3 | 4 | 114 |
| Combinations (Result) | Derek Wilson | 4 | 3 | 109 |
| Text Inequalities | Bob Pullman | 4 | 1 | 103 |
| Tree-processing Algorithms | Anne Wilson | 4 | 1 | 92 |
| Using Operators in APL2 | Norman Thompson | 2 | 3 | 118 |
| Using quad-FX with Aux Processors | David Piper | 3 | 2 | 123 |
| Using quad-NA for Data Translation | David Piper | 3 | 4 | 123 |
| Using VSAPL under TSO | David Piper | 2 | 4 | 127 |
| Weighted Least Squares | Kelly & Thomson | 4 | 3 | 115 |
| When Domino is not Sufficient | Sykes & Ansell | 1 | 4 | 155 |
| Workspace Management | Peter Branson | 4 | 2 | 99 |
Reviews:¶
| Title | Author(s) | Vol | No | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AFM (Interprocess) | Adrian Smith | 3 | 1 | 41 |
| APAT - APL utilities (IBM) | Bernard King | 1 | 2 | 44 |
| "APL - Advanced Techniques" (Bergquist) | Dick Bowman | 4 | 2 | 37 |
| "APL - an interactive approach" | David Preedy | 1 | 2 | 41 |
| "APL et GDDM" (Legrand) | Adrian Smith | 4 | 1 | 27 |
| APL on Micros | Adrian Smith | 1 | 4 | 54 |
| APL.68000 for the Macintosh | Mark Bassett | 3 | 3 | 54 |
| APL.68000 on the Atari ST | Paul Chapman | 3 | 3 | 47 |
| APL*PLUS/PC Version 6 | Martyn Adams | 3 | 3 | 51 |
| APL*PLUS/PC Version 7 | Adrian Smith | 4 | 3 | 43 |
| "Application systems in APL" | Anthony Camacho | 2 | 2 | 41 |
| "Applied Maths for Programmers" | Simon Garland | 3 | 3 | 36 |
| "Artificial Intelligence" | Robert Bittlestone | 1 | 3 | 43 |
| Benchmarks Updated | Adrian Smith | 3 | 1 | 44 |
| "Build your own Expert Systems" | Robert Bittlestone | 1 | 3 | 41 |
| "Comparing Computer Languages" | Peter Branson | 3 | 3 | 40 |
| Debugger (Uniware) | Alasdair Richardson | 4 | 4 | 50 |
| "Decision Support Systems" | David Preedy | 2 | 2 | 42 |
| "Diagnosing the system" | David Preedy | 2 | 3 | 33 |
| Dyalog APL on the IBM 6150 | Adrian Smith | 4 | 2 | 53 |
| "Expert Systems:Concepts & examples" | Robert Bittlestone | 1 | 3 | 42 |
| ForteGraph & XT/286 | Adrian Smith | 4 | 1 | 31 |
| "Fuzzy Sets & Decision Analysis" | Robert Bittlestone | 1 | 4 | 51 |
| "Graphics ... in Office Systems" | David Preedy | 2 | 3 | 36 |
| H-P 7550 plotter | David Preedy | 2 | 1 | 40 |
| Hercules-plus Graphics Card | Adrian Smith | 4 | 1 | 44 |
| I-APL for the IBM PC | Dave Weatherby | 4 | 3 | 37 |
| "Introduction to APL" (Peelle) | Romilly Cocking | 3 | 3 | 38 |
| "Intro to APL for the PC" (Murray&Pappas) | Anthony Camacho | 4 | 3 | 32 |
| Keyword APL/QL | David Ziemann | 1 | 4 | 121 |
| LaserJet printer | David Preedy | 2 | 1 | 42 |
| "Learning & applying APL" | Anthony Camacho | 1 | 3 | 39 |
| "LISP: a gentle introduction ..." | Robert Bittlestone | 1 | 4 | 51 |
| MicroSpan | Anne Wilson | 2 | 4 | 41 |
| "Mr. Babbage's Secret" | Ole Franksen | 1 | 2 | 42 |
| NEC V20 Processor | Adrian Smith | 4 | 2 | 51 |
| PC Graphics Cards | Martyn Adams | 3 | 1 | 51 |
| PL/PC | Nick Small | 4 | 4 | 52 |
| PortaAPL | Normand Montour | 3 | 1 | 45 |
| "Powers of TEN" | Robert Bittlestone | 1 | 4 | 53 |
| U-REG - regression package | Teresa Jones | 1 | 3 | 45 |
| "Visual display ..." | David Preedy | 2 | 3 | 34 |