Notes on Recent Meetings: Introduction

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Recent Meetings¶

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Notes on Recent Meetings¶

Introduction by Adrian Smith

Greg-y-Nog¶

Thanks to Alan Sykes for his notes on the APL Statistics Library meeting at Greg-y-Nog. Greg-y-Nog Hall was one of those places with a very special atmosphere; the kind of location which somehow encourages people to agree with each other and just get on with the job in hand! I felt that we achieved a remarkable amount in a very short space of time, and had some good fun in between (lyrics and music enclosed as promised).

The photos are by myself; I hope no-one feels grossly mis-represented! If anyone has any improvements on the captions (such as 'Spot the Balls' for the croquet scene) please forward them to the editor, who promises to print anything which is not actually libellous.

Alan's roundup is followed by Tony O'Hagan's more formal summary of the conference. This was presented to the British APL Association committee, and has been agreed as the way to proceed with the ASL project. We now have a programmer in part-time employment, and she is already well into the coding stage of the graphics section of the bottom shelf.

The Field Trip to British Airways¶

Put not your trust in Barcos!! The projector made a splendid BANG as the engineer (having just completed the setting up) dropped the metal stay for the cover into the power supply! Apart from this unfortunate accident (which was recovered from with remarkable speed and calm), a most interesting day. Thanks to all at BA for setting it up; I personally found it well worth the extra distance.

APL in Finance¶

Both speakers have provided full transcripts of their talks; need I say more!! I was very sorry to miss this meeting, so it is particularly pleasing to have the written record in full. Maybe I was unduly pessimistic in my Editorial; from Peter's notes I get the feeling that there may yet be a niche for APL in the corporate mainstream.