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by GDR
Tue Jul 04, 2017 3:25 pm
Forum: New to Dyalog?
Topic: Places to start
Replies: 7
Views: 108421

Re: Places to start

Dear APLer, I was lucky enough to be an employee at I.P.Sharp Associates when Ken Iverson joined the company around 1981. He developed a 3-day "Working Introduction to APL" course as well as a 3-day companion course for instructors, both of which I attended when given by Ken Iverson himself, and I ...
by GDR
Mon Mar 03, 2014 8:29 am
Forum: Functional Programming
Topic: Tensor notation
Replies: 2
Views: 13048

Re: Tensor notation

Mike, APL draws much inspiration from tensor notation - in particular multi-dimensional arrays and their operations. The big difference is that, in general, tensors involve arrays of functions rather than arrays of numbers. You should look at the paper "The Derivative Operator" by Ken Iverson in the ...
by GDR
Mon Feb 24, 2014 2:41 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: BAA-London - February Symposium
Replies: 6
Views: 20477

Re: BAA-London - February Symposium

Michael, Thank you for the reminder about Brian's talk. Please can you (or anyone else) list the urls of, say, 3 new public web sites that effectively use APL underneath? (I know of only 3 in total - Ziggi's, TommyJ's and aplsmith.com .) I would really like to feel the power of APL showing itself in ...
by GDR
Thu Feb 20, 2014 9:07 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: BAA-London - February Symposium
Replies: 6
Views: 20477

Re: BAA-London - February Symposium

Suggested item for Feb agenda:

What progress has been made in the attempt to enable APL programmers to develop APL systems on the internet browser platform?

Cheers,
Graeme.
by GDR
Sun Oct 13, 2013 7:58 am
Forum: New to Dyalog?
Topic: ActiveX
Replies: 3
Views: 13458

Re: ActiveX

Hi Hopke,

For a little more information on ActiveX controls, you can download APL3&4 from http://robertson.uk.net and look at Module8.

I hope this helps.

Graeme.