David Liebs showed me his implementation of J in Mathematica.  He started
from the parse table http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/dicte.htm .

Programs in conventional languages have a lot of associated ceremony. --
David Leibs

Cloudability is a requirement of modern applications.  -- Anssi Seppälä

Once again I am assigned the last speaking slot before the banquet, the
slot of death.  -- Simon Garland

Stephen Taylor spoke of code as poetry.  This allows me to justify my
penchant for aligning homologs in code, as in Chinese poetry and Haiku
where it is essential that words line up.

Marshall Lochbaum's presentation consisted of entering two non-trivial
programs, to read and write *.wav files, and running them to produce
correct results.  At one point I leaned over to Jay Foad and exclaimed
sotto voce, "My God, this guy's got guts!"

http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APLQA.htm#impress and a few other stories
to come.

At one point in my own presentation I thought I was fainting.  It turned
out the screen rippled in the slight air movement, a fact not apparent to
most of the audience who faced the screen squarely.
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