I'm curious about the relative popularity of the different members of the array-processing family of languages. And we can segment popularity into 3 domains: hobby, academic, corporate.
Here are all the array languages that have a large attention (from my admittedly ignorant viewpoint): APL - ? K - corporate consulting primarily J - large hobby following, one major corporation (ISI), some non-research-track academic use (e.g. Clifford Reiter) A+ - primarily 1 corporation (MSDW) Other related languages include Lucid, Field, and Qnial. Are there others? And I wonder why there is an APL conference when Ken Iverson himself admitted that J was an improvement over APL. Is APL better in certain ways? What support for parallel computing exists in the array-based languages? On 9/13/07, Steven H. Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is the last day for early bird registration for APL2007, 21-23 Oct > in Montreal. It's co-located with OOPSLA2007 and sharing registration > services at: > http://www.regmaster.com/conf/oopsla2007.html > > =============== > Preliminary Program > =============== > > Tutorials and workshops > ================= > > Introduction to APL (Ray Polivka) > > Object Oriented for APLers, APL for OOers (Dan Baronet) > > ... others in the works > > Presentations > ========= > > No Experience Necessary: > Hire for Aptitude - Train for Skills > (Brooke Allen) > > Compiling APL with APEX > (Robert Bernecky) > > APL, Bioinformatics, Cancer Research > (Ken Fordyce) > > Generic Programming on Nesting Structure > (Stephan Herhut, Sven-Bodo Scholz, Clemens Grelck) > > Interactive Array-Based Languages and Financial Research > (Devon McCormick) > > Array vs Non-Array Approaches to Programming Problems > (Devon McCormick) > > Design Issues in APL/OO Interfacing > (Richard Nabavi) > > Arrays of Objects, or Arrays within Objects > (Richard Nabavi) > > Competing, with J > (John Randall) > > ... others in the works > > There is still room for oral or poster presentations that will not be > contributed papers (published in a special issue of APL Quote Quad). If > you would like to make an oral presentation or a poster, contact Lynne > Shaw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). ACM SIGAPL has broadened it's scope to all Array > Programming Languages and more J representation would be welcome. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- J IRC Channel irc://irc.freenode.org/jsoftware ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
