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British APL Association Meetings for 1992

Vector 8:3, page 7

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Transcribed from the printed issue; not yet reviewed. Read it in the PDF of the issue, page 7

14 February 1992

  1. SEEK, an APL associative knowledge base. Graeme Robertson.
  2. Uses and abuses of APL2 for documentation. Ron Wilkes of IBM.
  3. Report on the progress developing the APL Statistics Library.
  4. Mastering J. A video of Donald McIntyre delivering his paper at APL91.

27 March 1992

  1. Report on the progress of the ISO APL language standards, and how this affects the future of APL.
  2. Write a system with 10% of the code! Adrian Smith will tell us how a properly constructed utility library can be used to maximum advantage, so that only 10% of the system actually needs to be written from scratch.
  3. APL coding standards and methodologies for robust systems: Maurice Jordan.

12 June 1992

  1. Annual General Meeting.
  2. News from SigAPL and their idiom collection, by Dick Bowman. Remember the FinnAPL idiom list? We are expecting great things from the SigAPL idiom list, which should cover a much wider range, and include idioms for many of the dialects of APL.
  3. 25 Years of APL. Video of the panel discussion at APL91 where the founders of APL reminisced about events over the last 25 years.

25 September 1992

Vendor Forum. Learn about the latest products and plans from the major vendors of APL - Dyalog APL, IBM, MicroAPL, STSC/Cocking & Drury. Shareware will be represented with IAPL, J and Sharp APL. In previous years the Vendor Forum was held in May. Moving the date to September will enable vendors to report on the announcements that they have made at the previous APL conference.

23 October 1992

Field trip to Morgan Stanley. John Searle has organised a visit to the new Docklands offices of Morgan Stanley, where we can see how three versions of APL are used to create efficient systems. The super fast language 'A' is unique to Morgan Stanley, and they also use Dyalog APL and Sharp APL.