For the first time in 10 years, the British APL Association is bringing all major vendors of terse software development languages together for insight and trends in fast application development and domain expert collaboration.
London 26th May 2009: The British APL Association (BAA) has announced their BAPLA09 conference which will give British software developers - and members of the BAA in particular - an opportunity to meet and discuss with the major vendors of Array Languages.
Paul Grosvenor, Chairman of the BAA says, “We feel that the APL languages have been overlooked massively over the past few years although the BAA has always provided a good forum for networking in smaller groups. However, more recently, we have noticed an increasing demand from many organisations, including large corporate entities within Finance and Engineering, particularly when it has come to integrating a larger degree of domain expert knowledge in the development process. With the increased development of web-based applications we have also seen some really fast tracked and successful applications spring up over the past 2-3 years. This is the direct background for wanting to bring together all the major vendors of APL languages for the first time in 10 years”.
The BAPLA conference follows closely in the footsteps of the QCon conference in London earlier this spring and particularly the track “Emerging languages in the Enterprise”. Ola Bini of Sweden hosted this track and he was quoted saying that programming languages generally are poor (or very poor) and he specifically wanted better programming languages which are less directed towards compilers and much more directed to facilitate better communication between developers and domain experts. APL has always been recognised as being exceptionally good at introducing domain expert knowledge into the development process.
The Vendors of APL programming languages presenting at the BAPLA09 conference include: UK based Dyalog Ltd and MicroAPL Ltd, US based APL 2000, J Software Inc and KX Systems. Other presentations will give insight into some of the new successful applications such as The Childcare Company’s online learning solution for Nursery Staff – LASAR, Bio-Check – an application developed by Optima Systems for monitoring patients or clinical trial participants’ progress by collecting a number of bio-markers (temperature, pulse, heart rate etc.) via PDA and SmartPhones.
The delegates will also come away with at least 2 new pre-releases of software.
The BAPLA Conference takes place at Wokefield Park in Reading on June 8-9 2009. For registration and further information please visit www.BAPLA09.com
About the British APL Association - BAA
The BAA is an independent organisation formed for the purpose of furthering the use of APL or associated languages and assisting the wider APL communities where appropriate. APL stands for “Array Programming Language” - an interactive computer language noted for its elegance, conciseness and fast development speed. It is supported on most mainframes,
workstations and personal computers and these days even PDA’s and Smart phones.
The BAA produces a quarterly publication Vector which is arguably the pre-eminent magazine for all things APL. Extracts plus the archive can be found at www.vector.org.uk. The membership of the BAA covers all ability and age groups, worldwide. Various contact groups from around the world can also be identified at this site.
British APL Association - C/O Optima House - Mill Court - Spindle Way - Crawley - RH10 1TT - West Sussex - United Kingdom.
Tel: +44 (0) 1293 562 700 Fax: +44(0)1293 562 699
Website: http://www.vector.org.uk/
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