About a year ago, my daughter scanned nearly 600 old family photographs, adding captions to them as she went. This was fine as a start but then I was asked for photos of my grandparents’ weddings there was nothing for it but to...
Editor’s note The story below of what happened to The Childcare Company recounts events which have...
Editorial, John Jacob, p.2 Chairman’s Report August 2015, Paul Grosvenor, p.3 British APL...
Editor’s note The story below of what happened to The Childcare Company recounts events which have...
I am often asked “what is APL good for”? I reply that APL is good for almost anything but that it is also very good at prototyping. With it you can experiment and use it as a tool for thinking about the problem at hand. It is...
In a recent e-mail [1], John Scholes reminded me of his last encounter with Ken Iverson,...
Romilly Cocking at BAA 2016 (20/05/2016) Take a look at neural network experiments running in APL on the multi-core Raspberry Pi 3 and the new £4 Raspberry Pi Zero.
About a year ago, my daughter scanned nearly 600 old family photographs, adding captions to them as she went. This was fine as a start but then I was asked for photos of my grandparents’ weddings there was nothing for it but to...
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Something special has happened. It is now 55 years since APL as we know it first became available....
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Tale of twelve algorithms An adventure from the plains of distance and similarity; on the rivers...
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Comma-separated text files (CSV) are the most fundamental format for data processing. All programming languages and software that support working with relational data, also provide some level of CSV handling.
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Ken Iverson spent his life writing and talking about q’s ancestor language APL.
Q has been all about implementation and performance. Now the documentation is catching up.
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Larger than life automata have been known for some decades. Recent examples in [1] triggered the...
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