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Author: AAskAAsk
Date: Dec 25, 2008 01:11
... circa 1977 by Rugaber & Perlis.
Anyone know anything on this?
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Author: Charles RichmondCharles Richmond
Date: Dec 24, 2008 17:54
Some DECWriters had an APL font that could be selected with
a key on the side of the keyboard. It was dot matrix, but it
seemed to me that *some* dots of characters were "in between"
where the regular matrix was.
So I was wondering: where can I get hold of the ROM information
for this font??? How hard would it be to modify a dot-matrix
printer to produce the DECWriter APL characters... or even the
"regular" ASCII DECWriter characters???
(I know some dot-matrix printers allow the addition of characters
in RAM, but as I said... the APL characters did *not* strictly
follow the "cells" of the dot matrix. It had "'tween" dots.)
(If this thread wanders, please trim follow-ups...)
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Author: leecleec
Date: Dec 24, 2008 11:15
On Dec 20, 9:29 pm, hal...@ cox.net wrote: > I had an opportunity to show APL to some very smart but very young
> people a few days ago and it
> was quite an experience. The kids were just fascinated by how simple
> APL expressions did so much,
> all mystery and power of the funny little greek symbols and getting
> the computer to do things for you
> so easily. They had never seen anything like it before and you could
> tell they were excited. At the
> same time a senior government technologist was looking over my
> shoulder and was not impressed.
> "We got rid of it in my shop because no one could understand it or
> maintain it and its a write only language."
> I think if APL has a future its with the kids who see its potential
> and are excited. A lot of very sophisticated adults have pretty much
> ruled it out and will never consider it again. Too bad.
>
> Two days later I ran into one of the dads who asked me to suggest a
> free APL he could install
> (windows) and a book. I dug out my old copy of Gilman & Rose 3rd ...
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Author: Phil LastPhil Last
Date: Dec 24, 2008 11:12
On Dec 24, 11:28 am, "Jan Karman"
wrote:> "graham" yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
>
> news:A86dnS8uU_OulM_UnZ2dnUVZ8tfinZ2d@bt.com...
>
> [...]
> I do not usually join in this kind of stuff but having been taking a look at
> what it takes to drive the windows clipboard in connection with my unicode
> stuff on the wiki and I have some sentiments with Jan's original comment to me
> about software.
>
> [...]
>
> thanks Graham for joining me. Sometimes you have to charge things a little bit
> to make them come home to people, especially to nerds (nurds, gnurds, knurd-s
> {⌽drunk}-s, &c).
>
> Merry Christmas t0 all of you!
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Author: robpoint2robpoint2
Date: Sep 22, 2008 09:02
Does anyone on this board know the whereabouts or email address for
Gregg Taylor? Gregg at one time (perhaps still) lived in Keller TX.
I lost contact with him 4 or 5 years back.
any info is appreciated,
Rob
robpoint2@ gmail.com
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Author: Stephen TaylorStephen Taylor
Date: Sep 21, 2008 16:01
The next issue of Vector will probably appear without the Vector
Product Guide, the first issue to omit it for a long time.
The reasons this time are technical. We're converting the production
process from Word to DocBook, an XML-based markup in wide use for
technical publishing. Dyalog has been generous in allowing me time to
work on this conversion, but the Product Guide is unlikely to make
Vector 23:4.
Browsing the guide in V23:3 I can see several addresses I happen to
know are out of date. Also glaring omissions: we have no listing for
the active NYC J User Group. Jim Goff has been offering consulting for
years, but Beautiful Systems, Inc. appears only as a contact address.
Kx Systems has contact details but you wouldn't know from our Guide
that you can download q from its site.
I wonder if the guide is serving anyone. Should we maintain it at all,
and if so, what should be in it?
I can see value in listing
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Author: Stephen TaylorStephen Taylor
Date: Sep 16, 2008 01:42
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Author: Morten KrombergMorten Kromberg
Date: Sep 16, 2008 01:09
On Sep 13, 10:14 pm, "graham" yahoo.co.uk> wrote:> Is it possible to subclass windows created outside the current interpreter
> session from APL+WIN if so I would be grateful if someone could tell me how.
> I have tried the examples in the documentation and these only work with
> windows created in the current session. What I am trying to do is to get APL
> to intercept the messages being sent to a window in another application
> running on my machine. I can get the handle of the window concerned and can
> execute many of the windows low level commands on it. I can even draw on it
> from APL via its device context but so far the messages have eluded me. If
> there is another way to get at the messages rather than subclassing, details
> of that too would be welcome.
>
> Graham...
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Author: GosiGosi
Date: Sep 12, 2008 08:35
It is interesting to note that Agile and Apl share a lot of common
ground.
The Agile people have defined some factors where Agile will be useful.
Agile
Size
Well-matched to small products and teams. Reliance on tacit knowledge
limits scalability.
Criticality
Untested on safety-critical products. Potential difficultiies with
simple design and lack of documentation.
Dynamism
Simple design and continuous refactoring are excellent for highly
dynamic environments, but a source of potentially expensive rework for
highly stable environments.
Personnel
Requires continuous presence of a critical mass of scarce Cockburn
Level 2 or 3 experts. Risky to use non-agile Level 1B people.
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Author: graemedrgraemedr
Date: Sep 10, 2008 04:25
Dear all,
I have published my course notes on APL in the form of 2 books.
The first book (ISBN 0-952-41671-9) is an introduction to basic APL at
the heart of Sharp APL and IBM APL before the split in 1981, plus an
introduction to second generation APL at the heart of IBM APL2, Dyalog
APL, MicroAPL and others.
The second book (ISBN 0-952-41672-7) introduces the additions to
Dyalog APL since 1990 and up to version 11.
These books are available directly from ROBERTSON(Publishing), 15
Little Basing, Basingstoke, RG24 8AX at £9.99 and £29.99 respectively,
or online from, for example, Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b?url=search-alias%%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords...
The books are not a substitute for the excellent materials that come
bundled with an APL interpreter, but they might prove of some help for
beginners and others attempting to master the language.
/Graeme.
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