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International Conference on APL archive
Proceedings of the international conference on APL '91 table of contents

Palo Alto, California, United States

Pages: 264 - 273

Year of Publication: 1991

ISBN:0-89791-441-4

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Author

Donald B. McIntyre

Luachmhor, Church Road, Kinfauns, Perth PH2 7LD, Scotland, United Kingdom

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SIGAPL: ACM Special Interest Group on APL Programming Language
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ACM New York, NY, USA

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Downloads (6 Weeks): 10, Downloads (12 Months): 25, Citation Count: 4

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ABSTRACT

J is a new dialect of APL that provides much additional power over earlier dialects, and also provides a challenge to the user to master this new power. This paper discusses some of the problems the author encountered in learning J, and how they were overcome.

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	6	Iverson, Kenneth E., The ISI Dictionary of J, Iverson Software, Inc., Toronto (1990).
	7	Iverson, Kenneth E., Tangible Math and the ISI Dictionary of J, Iverson Software, Inc., Toronto (1990).
	8	Iverson, Kenneth E., Programming in J, Iverson Software Inc., Toronto (1991) (includes The ISI Dictionary of J) 100pp.
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CITED BY 4

	Chris Burke, Programming in J/Windows, ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad, v.25 n.1, p.29-34, Sept. 1994
	Murray Eisenberg , Howard A. Peelle, Confessions of two APL educators learning J, ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad, v.24 n.1, p.78-87, Aug. 1993
	Donald B. McIntyre, The role of composition in computer programming, ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad, v.25 n.4, p.116-133, June 1995
	Martin Neitzel, Untying the Gordian knot: agreement in J, ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad, v.25 n.4, p.145-153, June 1995