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Vol.18 No.4
April 2002



The Journal
of the British APL
Association
Finnish Forests VI plus ...
• Norman goes Jotting with Style 41
• Veli-Matti expounds Dfns 50
• Adrian takes a PDF Apart 77
• Michel Dumontier plays with 666 88
• Stephen Taylor on Coding Clarity 113
• Cannon on Packages in Dyalog 126

Contents

EditorialStefano Lanzavecchia3
APL NEWS
Quick Reference Diary 7
Accepted Papers for APL2002 8
British APL Association News
News from Sustaining Members12
APL Product GuideGill Smith14
The Education Vector
Zark Newsletter Extracts
  Crossword
edited by Jon Sandles38
J-ottings 32: The Stylish Part of VectorNorman Thomson41

RECENT MEETINGS
Report of Finnish Forests VI
Conference ReportAdrian Smith48
Dynamic Functions in PracticeVeli-Matti Jantunen50
Using OLE with Dyalog APL and ExcelConrad Hoesle-Kienzlen64
A PDF Primer for APLersAdrian Smith77
Report: APL Germany in MunichAdrian Smith85

GENERAL ARTICLES
Playing with the Beast Number with JMichel Dumontier88
The Abstraction Mechanisms of Vector PascalPaul Cockshott100
Three Principles of Coding ClarityStephen Taylor113

TECHNICAL SECTION
Hacker’s Corner: Packages in Dyalog APLRay Cannon126
Technical Correspondence:
  Norman Thomson

129
At Play with J: Second Order JosephusGene McDonnell132
Hypergeometric Functions and CDFs in JEwart Shaw139

Index to Advertisers
144

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