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

"Jack" <jgrudd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Apr 24, 1:02 am, "jk" <*a...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Jack" <jgr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > On Apr 23, 11:51 pm, AAsk <AA2e...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >> 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.
>> [...]
>>
>> > Yes, it would be welcome; but people just don't believe until they
see
>> > for themselves.  And many don't believe even then.  It's too
>> > unsettling, apparently.
>>
>> [...]
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>> That's right! I once wrote an article in a computer weekly on APL/K and
>> mentioned among other examples your DARPA application, as presented at
APL9?

[...]
>
> Thanks for remembering.  It was at APL90 in Copenhagen.   Jim Brown co-
> authored the paper, so it's difficult to understand how anyone could
> have claimed it was a hoax.
>

Similar to the story on an instance where Arthur Whitney embarrassed some
manager with an SQL-query on their ("legacy"-) system ("We can do that too
...")
and in which the process got hopelessly stuck and remained silent for a
quarter
of an hour or so, and the manager murmured: I really got to go now! (this
story
was published, I lost it, I forgot the name ... by some Dan ? (4 letters),
later
founder of Sustainable Systems Toronto (environmental) ...  anyways we
were
sitting in the McVeigh's cafe in Toronto APL97 - that's all I remember)

(will have a look at your pictures)