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From: russur@convex.com (Russ Urquhart)
Subject: Re: APL Discussion
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In <1993Apr8.152512.23182@csi.uottawa.ca> cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne) writes:

>In article <C55qFJ.Ayp@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> "David Liebtag" <LIEBTAG@STLVM20.VNET.IBM.COM> writes:

>There's an obscure book out there called something like the "Finnish
>APL Society List of APL Idioms;" a brief monograph containing probably
>hundreds of APL one-liners to do a wide variety of small tasks.  This
>is the sort of thing that would be really useful for people; I'd
>really like to see ISI release a book entitled "How to Do it in J: A
>Whole Pile of Idioms."  It would allow people to do much less
>recreating of wheels.

I remember about 10+ years ago, while in college, coming across an idiom book
published by IBM. As I recall it was a grey manual, sort of in-house
documentation quality. It was probably 50 or so pages long but it contained
various idioms, gave a brief description/use, and I think even had some
samples.

I have wanted to find this book, but haven't been around IBM documentation
since.

If anyone has heard of this book also, I'd appreciate any info!

FYI


Russ






