Re: APL in Colorado, USA? Am I the last one?

It would be interesting to read a detailed account of what swayed the
Matlab fellow. Perhaps a book on APL and advanced mathematics is
needed.

A while ago,

1. I was exploring the shortest path problem using APL: I wanted to
list all the paths. The shortest path is easily given by APL, see
Learning & Applying APL by B Legrand.  No APL text book delved into
this area ie. enumerate all the paths. Google highlighted several non-
APL solutions. Eventually I found an APL solution written by a US
academic (can't remember the URL).

2. A colleague was doing an investifation. Take the UK national
lottery - it has 6!49 combinations where the first (1,2,3,4,5,6) and
the last (44,45,46,47,48,49) have each got a sum and the number of
combinations that have the same respective sum is exactly 1. The
objective was to list each sum between the 2 with the number of
combinations ... quickly. After a lot of experimentation, the solution
ran in less than 2 minutes on a 1.6 GHz Pentium processor.

I've heard that APL had something to do with the planning of the
(glass) roof of the British Library but not read about it.

More in print on the undeniable case for APL would be very welcome.
Would it not?