Minnowbrook APL Futures Conference 96 --by Don Orth Carmel, New York SUMMERDRIFTSLISTLESSLY the dog days of August and on we scan the horizon for rescuer autumn, Garth Foster, with uncanny timing, dispatches invitations to an APL conference at a modern log lodge by a quiet lake in the Adirondack mountains in sparkling October. Ah, cool mountain air. Canoes on the lake. Old friends. Minnowbrook! For most of the attendees the invitations are simply reminders to once again mark their calendars for their annual October trek. For me, the '96 invitation was an opportunity to touch base with the old community from which I have been slowly drifting away. Or so I thought. It is, in fact, a new community wrestling with new problems and pursuing new opportunities, and, I am happy to report, it's alive and kicking. Although I thought I had moved on, I'm really still right in the middle of it. My only previous trip to Minnowbrook was in the early 1980's near the end of the period when the giants of APL would duke it out over language design and implementation issues. It was then called the APL hnplementers Conference. It is now called the
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Minnowbrook APL futures conference 96
Orth, Don
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