APL-Berlin-2OOO--An Observation --by Gartlt Foster Syracuse, New Tork "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it .... " T h e s e words, o f course, begin Charles Dickens' Tale of Two Cities. For Dickens, the two cities were London and Paris. For me, the words provided a metaphor where the two cities were West Berlin and East Berlin, a divided city, now reunited and being built into a New Berlin. Building construction in what was East Berlin continues at a pace that is so rapid that the (building) crane has become the national bird of Germany. T h e phrase "the best of times, the worst of tiraes" is a phrase that seems to apply to APL conferences as well. We would have to agree that we saw the best of times from perhaps 1979 to 1989. Mainframe APL was still strong and the potential of the PC was being developed. Bigger, faster, and cheaper "computing iron" was to be expected. As this writer remembers it, the 1979 conference in Rochester, New York, had the high water mark for
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APL-Berlin-2000—an observation
Foster, Garth
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, Volume 31 (1)
Association for Computing Machinery – Sep 1, 2000
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