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The next few lines were added by EllisMorgan on 2 February 2009, is this the right place to ask these questions?

A group of about 15 (so far) APL users have started meeting once a month or so in London at the Edgar Wallace pub in the afternoon. The third meeting was held on Friday 30 January 2009 and some notes about it have been posted to the BAA London GoogleGroup, see http://groups.google.com/group/baa-london

The next meeting will focus on "APL and Education" and the arrangements will be published soon.

I think the aims, records and announcements of these meetings would be more manageable if they were kept here, perhaps with the archive of past meetings being kept at BAA London as files. One advantage would be that we could jointly edit the documents without the "full audit" style of additional comments posted to to threads in groups. We could have three pages here BAALondonMeetings, BAALondonNextMeeting, BAALondonLastMeeting. Does this sound like a good idea?

I am posting pointers to the BAA London group here, at CLA (computer.language.apl NewsGroup), and at the Dyalog Users Group. Are there other places I should consider?

This discussion moved to BAA London. 2009-03-03 23.18.33

Ellis - I run a monthly group here in New York City for J called NYCJUG (NYC J-Users Group): see http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/NYCJUG to see how we use the J wiki to post notices and meeting notes. Also, it wouldn't hurt to send a message to general@jsoftware.com to ask about posting meeting notices there (as long as you're not worried about possible infection.)

Also, you might want to list on Gary's Guide: http://www.garysguide.org/ and any other general, technical lists for your area of which you may be aware.

Good luck!

DevonMcCormick

Devon, I will take a look and tell the others at Fridays meeting, thanks Ellis.

With reference to the main thesis of FunWithText it crossed my mind that perhaps it was the other way round and that it was in fact King David, God's amanuensis for the writing of the psalms, who also wrote Shakespeare.

It would be nice to post a copy of the Yale APL Idiom List as a proper set of Wiki pages rather than a scanned PDF, since this would allow cut-and-paste. Does anyone know (a) whether there still exists a copy of the idioms in text form, and (b) whether we'd need to seek permission to do this?

Interesting that this would be the most recent post as it pertains to a query I have:

Does anyone have a copy of Ken Iverson's Turing Award Lecture in a text format?

I'm working on a web page commemorating Ken's Turing award and am wondering if anyone has a copy of his lecture in a text format; i.e. not the PDF of images from the 1981 issue of Communications of the ACM, which I have.

I'm currently typing it in but it's going to take a while. Fortunately, for the web page, I'll initially need only the introductory section, which I've already entered. Part of the difficulty of entering it is the APL character set (surprise) but I've decided that the APL385 Unicode font will do for this. Interestingly, one of the first "special" characters was _not_ a standard APL one - it's the double-headed arrow for "equivalence".

In any case, I would like to get the whole lecture up in a more searchable form.

Thanks,

Devon