The Random Vector

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The Random Vector¶

The Newsletter of the APL Statistics Library

Editor David Eastwood

January 1992

Contents¶

Editorial¶

by David Eastwood

Most of this issue of Random Vector is devoted to the third ASL conference held at the University of Wales Conference Centre at Gregynog in October 1991. Anthony Camacho was kind enough to produce detailed notes of the proceedings and these follow this short introduction.

The Conference was useful in that we looked back at the first three years of the project and drew some conclusions from our activities. We were also able to consider some new areas where the ASL project might consider producing software. One of the conclusions drawn at the conference was that the work of the authors of the next ASL volumes would be made somewhat easier if they were given guidelines for the design and production of APL code, and were also given some warnings about the differences that exist between the various dialects of APL likely to be used in the ASL project.

I include, in this issue of Random Vector, some thoughts on APL style guidelines that have emerged from the ASL project, and also a paper produced by Maurice Jordan which covers language differences between the various second generation APLs. The latter two documents are intended to be 'working papers' for the ASL project, and so we would welcome comments and additions.

Following the ASL conference, the ASL Management Committee is now: