Spring Conference, IBM Hanover

The German APL association has distributed the final programme for its
Spring Conference this week, and the abstract of David Liebtag's
presentation on "What's new in APL2?"

Download from

http://www.vector.org.uk/content/apl...nformation.zip

Stephen Taylor

editor@vector.org.uk
http://www.vector.org.uk
http://aplwiki.aplteam.com

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PROGRAMME

Zeit Thema Referent
09:30 - 09:45 Begrüßung Axel Holzmüller
09:45 – 10:30 Neues von GSE und 1. Requirement Sitzung Bernd
Geißelhardt, Axel Holzmüller
10:30 – 10:45 Kaffeepause
10:45 - 11:15 Biometrische Rechnungsgrundlagen in der
Lebensversicherung
Horst Löbus,
Hamburg Mannheimer
Lebensversicherung
11:15 – 12:00 APL2 - What's New? David Liebtag, IBM
12:00 – 13:15 Mittagspause
13:15 – 13:45 Using AktiveX in AP 145 Applications David Liebtag, IBM
13:45 – 14:30 APL und DB2 Stored Procedures Bernd Geißelhardt
14:30 – 15:15 Datenanalyse mit IBM Infosphere Warehouse Dr. Christiane
Görges-Holzmüller,
DPC
15:15 – 15:30 Kaffeepause
15:30 – 16:00 Associated Processor 15 - Structured
Storage
David Liebtag, IBM
16:00 – 16:30 2. Requirementsitzung Axel Holzmüller
Tagesordnung für den 13. Juni 2008 (APL-Germany-Tag)
Zeit Thema Referent
09:30 – 11:00 Mitgliederversammlung Dr. Rainer Nussbaum
11:00 – 11:15 Kaffeepause
11:15 – 12:15 Freitag, der 13. und Kalenderzyklen Peter Antweiler
12:15 – 13:30 Mittagspause
13:30 – 14:00 Parallel Each David Liebtag, IBM
14:00 – 14:45 Stand-Alone Web Services Morten Kromberg, Dyalog Ltd.
14:45 – 15:00 Kaffeepause
15:00 – 16:00 Galileo Galilei und die Wurfparabel Albert Badior

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ABSTRACT

APL2 - What's New?
This presentation will summarize the enhancements and new features in
mainframe APL2 and
Workstation APL2 Service Level 12. Highlights will include support for
multiple core machines,
automatic and explicit data type checking, increased file IO
performance, DB2 stored procedures,
development environment usability improvements, and use of ActiveX
controls in GUI applications.
Parallel Each
There has been a lot of discussion in the computer industry recently
about how to make it easy for
programmers to exploit new machines that contain multiple core
processors. Because APL's
semantics can reveal the parallel nature of many algorithms, some
people are saying that perhaps
APL has an opportunity to lead the way in this field. This
presentation will include an overview of the
hurdles to be overcome in successful exploitation of multiple
processors. It will also demonstrate two
new operators in Workstation APL2 which allow developers to easily
distribute sections of applications
onto multiple processors and network connected machines. These
operators can provide
performance improvements that are directly proportional to the number
of cores available to the
applications.
Associated Processor 15 - Structured Storage
APL is traditionally a loosely typed language. Arrays simply contain
numbers and characters and the
structure and type of their data can be changed at any time. APLers
usually view this as one of the
language's benefits: they don't have to worry about how data is
represented internally; they can focus
on their problems. However, many users of other languages view strong
typing as a benefit: type
checking helps programmers avoid domain, rank, and length errors.
Associated Processor 15
supports strong data typing and enables APL2 programmers to gain the
benefits of type checking that
are usually only enjoyed by programmers of compiled languages. In
addition, Associated Processor
15 lets APL2 programs access data that is outside and larger than the
workspace and share data with
programs written in other languages. This presentation will introduce
Processor 15 and demonstrate
some of the ways that it can be used.
Using ActiveX in AP 145 Applications
ActiveX controls are reusable software components based on the
Component Object Model (COM).
Many ActiveX controls are available, both as part of Windows and as
products from other vendors.
Programmers that use ActiveX controls are not limited to the set of
controls that built into Windows
and are supported directly by APL2's Auxiliary Processor 145. Service
Level 12 adds support for
ActiveX controls to AP145. This presentation will summarize and
demonstrate the new ActiveX
support.

On Jun 11, 3:48 am, "Stephen Taylor <edi...@vector.org.uk>"
<StephenTaylorF...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> The German APL association has distributed the final programme for its
> Spring Conference this week, and the abstract of David Liebtag's
> presentation on "What's new in APL2?"
>
> Download from
>
> http://www.vector.org.uk/content/apl...nformation.zip
>
> Stephen Taylor
>
> edi...@vector.org.ukhttp://www.vector.org.ukhttp://aplwiki.aplteam.com
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> PROGRAMME
>
> Zeit Thema Referent
> 09:30 - 09:45 Begrüßung Axel Holzmüller
> 09:45 – 10:30 Neues von GSE und 1. Requirement Sitzung Bernd
> Geißelhardt, Axel Holzmüller
> 10:30 – 10:45 Kaffeepause
> 10:45 - 11:15 Biometrische Rechnungsgrundlagen in der
> Lebensversicherung
> Horst Löbus,
> Hamburg Mannheimer
> Lebensversicherung
> 11:15 – 12:00 APL2 - What's New? David Liebtag, IBM
> 12:00 – 13:15 Mittagspause
> 13:15 – 13:45 Using AktiveX in AP 145 Applications David Liebtag, IBM
> 13:45 – 14:30 APL und DB2 Stored Procedures Bernd Geißelhardt
> 14:30 – 15:15 Datenanalyse mit IBM Infosphere Warehouse Dr. Christiane
> Görges-Holzmüller,
> DPC
> 15:15 – 15:30 Kaffeepause
> 15:30 – 16:00 Associated Processor 15 - Structured
> Storage
> David Liebtag, IBM
> 16:00 – 16:30 2. Requirementsitzung Axel Holzmüller
> Tagesordnung für den 13. Juni 2008 (APL-Germany-Tag)
> Zeit Thema Referent
> 09:30 – 11:00 Mitgliederversammlung Dr. Rainer Nussbaum
> 11:00 – 11:15 Kaffeepause
> 11:15 – 12:15 Freitag, der 13. und Kalenderzyklen Peter Antweiler
> 12:15 – 13:30 Mittagspause
> 13:30 – 14:00 Parallel Each David Liebtag, IBM
> 14:00 – 14:45 Stand-Alone Web Services Morten Kromberg, Dyalog Ltd.
> 14:45 – 15:00 Kaffeepause
> 15:00 – 16:00 Galileo Galilei und die Wurfparabel Albert Badior
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> ABSTRACT
>
> APL2 - What's New?
> This presentation will summarize the enhancements and new features in
> mainframe APL2 and
> Workstation APL2 Service Level 12. Highlights will include support for
> multiple core machines,
> automatic and explicit data type checking, increased file IO
> performance, DB2 stored procedures,
> development environment usability improvements, and use of ActiveX
> controls in GUI applications.
> Parallel Each
> There has been a lot of discussion in the computer industry recently
> about how to make it easy for
> programmers to exploit new machines that contain multiple core
> processors. Because APL's
> semantics can reveal the parallel nature of many algorithms, some
> people are saying that perhaps
> APL has an opportunity to lead the way in this field. This
> presentation will include an overview of the
> hurdles to be overcome in successful exploitation of multiple
> processors. It will also demonstrate two
> new operators in Workstation APL2 which allow developers to easily
> distribute sections of applications
> onto multiple processors and network connected machines. These
> operators can provide
> performance improvements that are directly proportional to the number
> of cores available to the
> applications.
> Associated Processor 15 - Structured Storage
> APL is traditionally a loosely typed language. Arrays simply contain
> numbers and characters and the
> structure and type of their data can be changed at any time. APLers
> usually view this as one of the
> language's benefits: they don't have to worry about how data is
> represented internally; they can focus
> on their problems. However, many users of other languages view strong
> typing as a benefit: type
> checking helps programmers avoid domain, rank, and length errors.
> Associated Processor 15
> supports strong data typing and enables APL2 programmers to gain the
> benefits of type checking that
> are usually only enjoyed by programmers of compiled languages. In
> addition, Associated Processor
> 15 lets APL2 programs access data that is outside and larger than the
> workspace and share data with
> programs written in other languages. This presentation will introduce
> Processor 15 and demonstrate
> some of the ways that it can be used.
> Using ActiveX in AP 145 Applications
> ActiveX controls are reusable software components based on the
> Component Object Model (COM).
> Many ActiveX controls are available, both as part of Windows and as
> products from other vendors.
> Programmers that use ActiveX controls are not limited to the set of
> controls that built into Windows
> and are supported directly by APL2's Auxiliary Processor 145. Service
> Level 12 adds support for
> ActiveX controls to AP145. This presentation will summarize and
> demonstrate the new ActiveX
> support.

Wow. Thanks for the info. Wish I could hear David's
presentation. I'm personally interested in exploiting multiple
processors; but also "strong typing" was one of the features that
DARPA wanted in 1990 for their desired prototyping language.