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Commentary on Practical Programming in Dyalog APL
Celebrating 10 years of Namespaces, 1994-2004


Wednesday, January 07, 2004  

NEW LOCATION for next weeks NY-DAUG Meeting. We have moved the location of next Tuesday's meeting up a few few blocks to the Michelangelo Hotel, at 51st Street and 7th Avenue.

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NY-DAUG
New York Dyalog APL User Group

Next Meeting:
Date: TBA
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: Michelangelo Hotel
51st Street at 7th Avenue, New York City
Program:
TBA
Links
The Carlisle Group: The Forest, 100% Dyalog APL. "As lovely as the trees may be, the true wonder of APL lies in the forest"
-- Gary A. Bergquist, Zark Incorporated

Dyalog Limited: The Dyalog APL developers. Home of D, Namespaces, Reference Arrays, and other indispensable and entertaining enhancements to Ken Iverson's wonderful invention.

Vector: The Journal of the British APL Association, edited by the always helpful Stefano 'WildHeart' Lanzavecchia. Worth the price for his editorials alone.

Dyalog Discussion Group: A result of the 2003 Dyalog User Conference. Best spot for general Dyalog APL questions and answers.

Stephen Taylor: APL and Extreme Programming.

The APL Forum: An independent site of APL information and contributed software.

SIGAPL: The ACM Special Interest Group for APL and J.

Comp.Lang.APL: discussion board.

Joel on Software: Ex-Microsoft hacker offering unconventional wisdom and insight for the programmer/entrepreneur. A must read.

Paul Graham: Lisp guru. Essays of interest to the APL programmer.

J Software: Iverson's latest and greatest addition to array programming languages.

Kx Systems: Arthur Whitney's take on APL.
Code
This site uses a special font to display APL code that may be downloaded from Dyadic Systems.


All functions referred to in the commentary may be found in dapl.dws

APL Elements of Style: Reminders for a happy and rewarding programming career. (A work in progress)

Correspondence: paul-at-carlislegroup.com
Enhancements
Top 10 Enhancements I'd Like to See:
3. Extend []PATH to handle compound names. e.g. find SPACE.FOO if []PATH is 'SPACE'
2. Token for new, unnamed namespace to replace []NS ''
1. Token for current namespace to replace ([]NS '').##
Books
What I'm reading:
Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering. Fifty-five frequently forgotten fundamental facts (and a few fallacies) about software engineering. By Robert L. Glass

The Nature of Order, Book One: An essay on the art of building and the nature of the universe. By Christopher Alexander.

It is the mark of considerable experience to have so thoroughly thought out everything and determined it in the mind beforehand, that in the course of construction, or in the completion of a work, one is not forced to admit, "I wish I had not done this: I would have preferred it done otherwise." And the penalty to be paid for poorly constructed work is surprisingly heavy: with time we eventually recognize the rashness and foolishness of any move not considered carefully enough at the outset; if the work is not taken down or ammended, the mistake is the source of continual grievence, and if it is demolished, we are tormented at the thought of the loss and expense, and full of remorse for the lightness and ficklness of our opinion.

Leon Battista Alberti
On the Art of Building in Ten Books.

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