[net.lang.apl] APL Quote Quad 16/1

bflaw@watdcsu.UUCP (Brenda Law) (07/06/85)

APL Quote Quad, the newsletter of the Special Interest Group for APL (SIGAPL)
of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), went to press this week.
The Table of Contents follows.  An earlier version of this table, sent to
this newsgroup has been revised as below.  Features in this issue include
articles on APL as a Compiler Writing language and the answer to this
question:  What does the first APL lap portable computer (the Ampere WS1)
have in common with the Datsun 280Z?  


                                 APL Quote Quad
                              Volume 16, Number 1

                               TABLE OF CONTENTS

  NOTICES
  From the editor  
  Dyer and Sharp receive SIGAPL award 
  APL'85 Jigsaw Puzzle 
  Education Recommendations 
  SIGAPL Election Results 
  Cover Contest 
  Tool of Thought III - Proceedings Available 

  MEETINGS
  APL86 - Call for Papers 
  APL87 
  DPMA & ACM Conference 

  ARTICLES
  APL as a Compiler-Writing Language (A. Rafea & Y. Raynaud) 
  Tracing the Evaluation of APL Expressions (J. Sigle) 
  Reduction of a Matrix to Echelon Form and Applications (P. Weidner) 
  A Trace Facility for Intelligent Terminals (A.D. Luzi) 
  Implicit Instead Of The Explicit Copy Command (F.H.D. van Batenburg) 

  PRODUCTS
  A first look at AMPERE WS1 (M. Dumontier) 
  APL.68000 on the Apple Macintosh 
  DYALOG APL Version 3.0 
  Low-Cost Alternative to 8087 Chip 

  ALGORITHMS
  157.1 Parallel Shading of Polygons (T. Ylinen) 

  ERRATA
  Compact Simplex Method (R.A. Agnew) 
  APL and Elementary Logic (N. MacKenzie) 

  RECREATION
  Circle Functions 

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