APL Quote Quad Volume 8 Number 4
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The fourth issue in Volume 8 of the informal quarterly publication by the SIGPLAN Technical Committee on APL.Table of contents:
1. Correspondence
i) Youthful Indiscretions, or Is BASIC Bad for Your Health?
2. Meetings and Conferences
i) APL79 Conference Set for 30 May in Rochester
ii) National Science Foundation Director to Keynote ACM Conference
iii) ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN Symposium
iv) 1979 Computer Science Conference
v) Wilkes Addresses APL Colloquium
3. Notices
i) ICCP Announces Examination Dates
ii) Employment Register to Be Conducted at 1979 Computer Science Conference
iii) Eleventh Annual Bibliography of Computer-Oriented Books
4. Contributed articles
i) Considerations in the Design of a Compiler for APL (H. J. Saal)
ii) Name Scope Control in APL Defined Functions (G. M. Seeds, A. Arpin, and M. LaBarre)
iii) More on Fuzzy Floor and Ceiling (P. E. Hagerty)
iv) Two Computer Games for APL Students (P. C. Elliott)
v) Splines and Graphs (R. G. Selfriage)
6. Recreational APL
i) Keeping Up (cartoon)
ii) The Caret and the Stick Functions (E. E. McDonnell)
Editors: Marilyn J. Pritchard, Michael A. Jenkins, E. Clark Wiedmann, E. E. McDonnell
Published: June 1978