The July issue of PC Plus magazine includes a 3-page article “Program in APL”, featuring the NARS2000 interpreter.
Sunday, 14 June 2009
Saturday, 13 June 2009
Countdown to the Worldwide Programming Contest
Now less thab three weeks before Dyalog’s Worldwide Programming Contest closes. Student entries will win $5,500 in prizes; others can earn as much introducing them to APL. And the winner gets travel to Dyalog09 from anywhere in the world.
We’ve started a countdown on the Vector front page.
We’ve started a countdown on the Vector front page.
Friday, 5 June 2009
Catherine Lathwell Rediscovers the History of APL
Most of you have probably figured out that my name is Catherine Lathwell and I have begun working on a documentary film about the History of APL.
Last month, on May 11, 2009, I spoke publicly for the first time about this film with the APL Bay Area Users' Group meeting at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View California. I live in Toronto and had booked a trip to Palo Alto to touch base with some of the old timer APL folks as an informal kick-off trip for the film. Curtis Jones found out about these plans because I plastered them all over cyberspace and organised the meeting as well as a personal tour of the museum by Dr. Leonard Shustek, Chairman of the Board for the Museum.
The Museum is awesome. At the time, a fully functioning Babbage Engine had taken up residence is the foyer. It's beautiful. Later, I got goose bumps in the lab where they are re-conditioning old machines. The lab feels like one those old machine rooms, only smaller. They had card readers (oh, my) and those old machine room printers - I can't even remember what they are called. I do however, clearly remember Charlotte Dawson giving me what-for about not tying my hair back when I was setting them up. Charlotte was my (s)hero and boss :) so, the hair went up.
Back at the Museum they are in the midst of a massive fund raising campaign to support an ambitious exhibit featuring a time line of computer history. And incidentally, as far as I can tell, we haven't made it onto the time line in software languages category on the museum's web site, so there is an opportunity for advocacy here. In any case, a problem they will have with their exhibition, and a problem I will also share is, how do you explain something abstract, like a computer language to a general audience?
The meeting with the APL Bay Area Users' Group went much as one might expect. I introduced myself and talked about my ideas for the film. I then showed a short video interview with my father, and this stimulated discussion about the good old days. Discussion was lively and folks have a lot to say. The group supports the film idea and everyone is eager to help out. This is great.
I'm now getting ready to fly to the UK tonight so that I can talk about the film at the BAPLA2009 conference. This is very exciting and fun. I have a lot of energy for this project because I truly believe it is important - and if not now, When? And if not me, Who?
I'm looking forward to seeing you all on Monday. Keep watching this space...
http://www.computerhistory.org/
http://www.aprogramminglanguage.com/
Last month, on May 11, 2009, I spoke publicly for the first time about this film with the APL Bay Area Users' Group meeting at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View California. I live in Toronto and had booked a trip to Palo Alto to touch base with some of the old timer APL folks as an informal kick-off trip for the film. Curtis Jones found out about these plans because I plastered them all over cyberspace and organised the meeting as well as a personal tour of the museum by Dr. Leonard Shustek, Chairman of the Board for the Museum.
The Museum is awesome. At the time, a fully functioning Babbage Engine had taken up residence is the foyer. It's beautiful. Later, I got goose bumps in the lab where they are re-conditioning old machines. The lab feels like one those old machine rooms, only smaller. They had card readers (oh, my) and those old machine room printers - I can't even remember what they are called. I do however, clearly remember Charlotte Dawson giving me what-for about not tying my hair back when I was setting them up. Charlotte was my (s)hero and boss :) so, the hair went up.
Back at the Museum they are in the midst of a massive fund raising campaign to support an ambitious exhibit featuring a time line of computer history. And incidentally, as far as I can tell, we haven't made it onto the time line in software languages category on the museum's web site, so there is an opportunity for advocacy here. In any case, a problem they will have with their exhibition, and a problem I will also share is, how do you explain something abstract, like a computer language to a general audience?
The meeting with the APL Bay Area Users' Group went much as one might expect. I introduced myself and talked about my ideas for the film. I then showed a short video interview with my father, and this stimulated discussion about the good old days. Discussion was lively and folks have a lot to say. The group supports the film idea and everyone is eager to help out. This is great.
I'm now getting ready to fly to the UK tonight so that I can talk about the film at the BAPLA2009 conference. This is very exciting and fun. I have a lot of energy for this project because I truly believe it is important - and if not now, When? And if not me, Who?
I'm looking forward to seeing you all on Monday. Keep watching this space...
http://www.computerhistory.org/
http://www.aprogramminglanguage.com/
Wednesday, 3 June 2009
BAA London meeting 26 June
Next meeting will be at:
The Knights Templar
95 Chancery Lane
Holborn
London
WC2A 1DT
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2A%201DT
On 26 June. 2pm downstairs for 2.30pm up.
We have a room booked from 14.30 'til 17.00 away from all the noise
and bustle and overlooking Carey Street
The Knights Templar
95 Chancery Lane
Holborn
London
WC2A 1DT
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?
On 26 June. 2pm downstairs for 2.30pm up.
We have a room booked from 14.30 'til 17.00 away from all the noise
and bustle and overlooking Carey Street
Tuesday, 26 May 2009
APL in the Real World – Conference to Focus on Application Development in the Coming Decade
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/
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/
Wednesday, 20 May 2009
First Derivatives announces BGC Adaptor
First Derivatives is pleased to announce the addition of a BGC Adaptor to its Delta product suite. The new BGC Adaptor allows clients to connect the Delta platform, which is powered by kdb+, directly to BGC Partners' eSpeed electronic platform for market data, execution and order routing services.
The press release announcing this addition can be viewed at: http://www.firstderivatives.
The addition of the BGC platform to the Delta portfolio allows clients to develop fully automated trading systems across multiple global interest rate, FX and futures markets in a matter of days.
For further information on this exciting development and how it can assist your business please email bconlon@firstderivatives.com or bfitzpatrick@firstderivatives.
Annual General Meeting 2009
The Annual General Meeting of the British APL Association will be held on Monday 8th June as part of the BAPLA 2009 Conference.
The meeting, at Wokefield Park, near Reading, will commence at 1:45 pm and will be followed by presentations from the following speakers:
For further information about the conference and directions to Wokefield Park, please visit
www.bapla09.com.
Nicholas Small
Honorary Treasurer, British APL Association
01223-570850
treasurer@vector.org.uk
The meeting, at Wokefield Park, near Reading, will commence at 1:45 pm and will be followed by presentations from the following speakers:
- Stephen Taylor (Lambent Technology) - Who the H*** Needs XML?
- Sonia Beekman (APL2000) - The Product
- Kai Jaeger (APL Team Ltd) - Presentation Technology
- Roger Hui (JSoftware Inc) - Inner Product, An Old/New Problem
- Simon Garland (Kx)
For further information about the conference and directions to Wokefield Park, please visit
www.bapla09.com.
Nicholas Small
Honorary Treasurer, British APL Association
01223-570850
treasurer@vector.org.uk
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