The British APL Association invites you to celebrate - the twentieth anniversary of our journal Vector - the relaunch of our website www.vector.org.uk - the...
Sorry, Ray, Stephen, I must present my apologies. My plan is to be taking a pre-breakfast snorkel in the Caribbean at 8:30 local (13:30 UTC) that day. I'll be...
Maurice Jordan
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Feb 2, 2004 9:26 pm
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Another benefit of Pair Programming: It has been estimated (by whome?) that out of the total "life" cost of a software project, only 20% is the initial...
Folks: Yesterday, at the introductiory APL session, someone asked, "How do I get a job doing APL." Answer. Get a job where you are responsible for doing...
Brooke Allen
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Feb 4, 2004 7:53 pm
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I get hired to re-write APL programs in Exec2 (for IBM no less), FoxPro (Leading UK Bank) or just plain English (too many to mention). I am making APL (and...
I'm doing advanced mail merges for a large pension company. (Take data fields from CSV files and project onto template documents, with some logic.) You'd think...
I think they know what your effective hourly rate is, but they don't care! ... From: Stephen Taylor To: dyalogusers@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February...
Can you run that past me again? Preferably in a language I can understand? ... From: "amc3141" <amc3141@...> To: <dyalogusers@yahoogroups.com> Sent:...
Maurice Jordan
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Feb 6, 2004 9:50 pm
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Yeah, I didn't understand it either, but it sounded like maybe he only needed 32 digits, so the calculation could be made afterall without requiring all the...
Hi all. Brand new to APL and Dyalog APL/W here. I am having a little problem: Everytime i type DISPLAY 'abc' i get a VALUE ERROR instead of the nicer little...
Hi, I think the problem is that "DISPLAY" is not (as I guess you appear to be expecting) a function "built-into-APL", but just a user written function in a...
Dear All: I want to fill you in on our little experiment in hiring a new person to train in APL. Then I want to ask those of you with time and inclination to...
Brooke Allen
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Feb 14, 2004 1:19 pm
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Sounds like fun! ... From: Brooke Allen To: dyalogusers@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 8:19 AM Subject: [dyalogusers] Would you be willing...
For those of you who wish to try out the Behavioral Finance Game that I wrote which simulates a multi-player, multi-stock market, you may now download it from:...
Brooke Allen
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Feb 14, 2004 4:33 pm
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Department of Let No Good Enhancement Go Unpunished: The default behavior for autocompete is for it to kick in after 1 char is typed. You can change this in...
Hello Paul, We discovered the #. problem and will have it fixed in the next version of dyalog. The quad issue is something that I hit too, I guess that there...
Not being a V-Tenner myself I'm intrigued. Is Dyalog V10 clairvoyant that it can prompt you after you have typed zero characters? Else how does it know you are...
There are at least 3 of us that set it to 0. ... From: John Daintree To: dyalogusers@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 8:52 AM Subject: Re:...
After you type the dot, it prompts you with all the names in that namespace. This is the way it works in the Microsoft products. ... From: "Phil Last"...
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the dyalogusers group: What value of []IO do you use? o 0 o 1 To vote, please visit the following web...
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Feb 20, 2004 11:16 pm
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Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the dyalogusers group: What value of []ML do you use (by default, or mostly)? o 0 o 1 o 2 o 3 To vote,...
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Feb 20, 2004 11:19 pm
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Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the dyalogusers group: What version of Dyalog APL do you do most of your work in? o 7 o 8 o 9 o 10 To...
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Feb 20, 2004 11:22 pm
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Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the dyalogusers group: How often do you use the Object List feature of the session (under the tools ...
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Feb 20, 2004 11:34 pm
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Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the dyalogusers group: What best sumarizes your view of key caps? o Must have. o Can do without. o Key...
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Feb 20, 2004 11:44 pm
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Sorry about the junk mail. I was playing around with the Poll feature and did not realize that a message was sent every time I added a poll....
Would it be possible to add the option to display the autocomplete (of functions at least) in "last date updated" order? Would any one else find this usefull? ...