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http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.apl/topics 2007/9/17, Terrence Brannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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 > -- Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur Fugl&Fiskur ehf, Þerneyjarsund 23, Box 127 801 Grímsnes ,t-póst: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: gosiminn, gsm: +3546985532 Landslags og skrúðgarðagerð, gröfuþjónusta http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum /|_ .-----------------------------------. ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | ( -. | `-----------------------------------' | ) | (\_ _/) (`-. '--.) (='.'=) `. )----' (")_(")
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