A Review of the APL2000 User Conference --by Richard Woll Menlo Park, California A'rrENDED THE 5TH APL2000 USES CONFERENCEheld at the Rosen Plaza hotel in Orlando, Florida. This was the fourth conference I had attended (I had a scheduling conflict last year). These conferences provide an excellent opportunity to keep people who use APL up-to-date with the fantastic rate of change in the computing world. Eric Baelen, the president of APL 2000, has been the organizer of these conferences, ably assisted by his staff, especially Sonia Beckman who manages and takes care of the thousands of niggling details necessary for such a conference. I would like to go through a quick overview of conference themes over this five-yearperiod. During the 2000 Conference, Fred Waid (a melnbcr of the A P L 2 0 0 0 staff)mentioned that "if you were involved in application development prior to Windows 95, you can remember the change from D O S to the Windows application interface. In many cases we experienced our clients tellingus, in 1995 and 1996 thatwe did not need to wory about Windows, that they planned to stay with D O S . Than, in late 1996 or early
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