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A chapter of SIGPLAN - Special Interest Group on Programming Languages


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NEWS

APL-related Events in January and February 2012


BAA London
Friday 27 January 2012
The Albion, 2-3 New Bridge Street, London

Look on the Vector site for more information.

New York City J Users Group - NYCJUG
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Regular monthly meeting at 6:30 pm
At the offices of BEST (Bayesian Enhanced Strategic Trading)
in Hoboken, NJ at 33-41 Newark Street, PH
Call up for entrance - see websites below for more info

Please join the J Meetup
and visit the NYCJUG wiki
for more information, write-ups of past meetings, etc.

APL News


Open-Source version of K - Kona
Kona is a new open-source implementation of Arthur Whitney's K, an ASCII-based APL like language. Kona is a fully working version of K3. You can get it here (requires GitHub.

J is Now Open-Source
The most recent release of J is now under GPL! Get it here.
J is a powerful, elegant, high-level, high-performance programming language, which is also available in binary versions for Windows, Unix, Mac, and PocketPC handhelds, both as a GUI and in a console. It is available in both 32- and 64-bit versions for XP64 or Linux64, on AMD64 or Intel EM64T platforms. J systems can be installed and distributed for free.


Upcoming APL Events


APL2000 User Conference 2012
Sunday April 22, 2012 at 8:00 AM to Tuesday April 24, 2012 at 6:00 PM Hyatt Regency Jersey City Two Exchange Place Jersey City, NJ 07302 See the conference description here.


Recent APL Conferences


Iverson College 2011, Cambridge, England
See a review.

Dyalog APL Conference 2011
In Boston, Massachusetts, USA - look here for links to conference information.

Minnowbrook Implementers' Conference - September, 2011


FinnAPL forest Seminar 2011
Announcement and agenda
APL2010 Berlin
APL -- LPA
Array Processing Languages -- Learn Parallel Applications
APL 2010 LPA - Berlin: September 13-16, 2010
at the Technical University (TU) of Berlin
The members of APL Germany and GSE Working Group APL jointly organized and hosted this event, supported by the GUIDE SHARE Europe (GSE) organization.

Conference Follow-Up
  • APL in 2020



  • The APL Movie

    How APL Changed My Life


    Some Past APL Conferences


    Dyalog '09: September 13th-16th, 2009
    The Wyndham Princeton Forrestal Hotel and Conference Center, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
    Photos on Flickr

    BAPLA-09 : The British APL Association Conference June 8th-9th, 2009
    Wokefield Park, Reading, UK
  • Videos of talks
  • Photos of conference

  • 2010 Dyalog APL Contest Winners

    See the announcement and other news.


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