Hasta la vista... Looking Back at APL2002 in Madrid Willi Hahn The Conference Site To staK with, APL2002 (organized by Manuel Alfonseca and his team) ran very smoothly. Every one of us who was ever more-or-less involved in the organization of such a conference knows how much work has to be done behind the scenes just to allow a conference to run without any disturbances. Similar to the 1998 Rome Conference, we participants resided in downtown hotels, while the conferenee site was about 15km outside at the Higher Polytechnical School of the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. Every morning, two shuttle busses took us from the hotels to the conference site and brought us back in the evening. Some of us also used the public transportation system to arrange an individual timetable. archive, Fonts & Filters, Tihnan Otto's APL2C Compiler, I-APL anduvividly promoted by Adrian Smithuan early version of A+ for Windows. Speaking of A+, the complete system for Linux and other Unix Systems was also available, thanks to a donation from Morgan Stanley. Two tutorials were dedicated to A+. J people were missing. Surprise: Beside the classical vendors (in alphabetie order), APL2000, Dyadic, IBM, and Soliton, MieroAPL was,
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