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2 unusual facts about APL


CSMP III

The earlier CSMP III text-based programming language has been superseded by variations such as APL and object oriented computer-language modelling versions of CSMP such as OOSCMP.

Operation Coronado II

Because of the slow speed of the towed APL moving against the tide the journey took almost 12 hours, but did not delay the commencement of the new operation in Dinh Tuong Province on 28 July.


Abductor pollicis longus muscle

A small, lens-shaped radial sesamoid embedded into the APL tendon is a primitive state found in all known Carnivora genera except in the red and giant pandas and the extinct Simocyon where it is hypertrophied (enlarged) into a sixth digit or a so called "false thumb", a derived trait that first appeared in ursids.

Amateur Poker League

Mike Caro, Chris Moneymaker, Cowboy Kenna James, online phenom Nick Brancato and Doyle Brunson have been guests at National APL events.

Asia Injury Prevention Foundation

Helmets for Kids was officially launched on November 19, 2000 in Ho Chi Minh City by former US President Bill Clinton along with founding sponsors APL and BP.

BQM-147 Dragon

The Dragon began life in 1986, when the US Marines Corps contracted with the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), an offshoot of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, that works on government technology development contracts, to build a small piston-powered UAV as an "expendable jammer" for battlefield electronics warfare.

Combinatory logic

Kenneth E. Iverson used primitives based on Curry's combinators in his J programming language, a successor to APL.

Kenneth Iverson

Kenneth E. Iverson (1920–2004), developer of the APL programming language

Lawrence M. Breed

Breed was the 1973 recipient (with Dick Lathwell and Roger Moore) of the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery "for their work in the design and implementation of APL\360, setting new standards in simplicity, efficiency, reliability and response time for interactive systems.

Manugistics

Manugistics originated in 1969 in Bethesda, Maryland as Scientific Time Sharing Corporation (STSC) with some of the people who originally implemented APL as a programming language at IBM.

Mike Cohn

He began his career in the early 1980s as a Programmer in APL and BASIC before moving on to C++ and Java and running development groups.

Pier Paolo Pandolfi

Dr. Pandolfi and colleagues characterized the function of the fusion oncoproteins of APL, of the genes involved in the chromosomal translocations of APL, as well as of major tumor suppressors such PTEN, PML, and p53.

Proximity fuze

Baldwin was a member of the (APL) team headed by Tuve that did most of the design work.

Roger Hui

Because the manual was written by Adin Falkoff and Kenneth E. Iverson, Hui thinks it reasonable to say he learned APL from Falkoff and Iverson.

Victor Posner

He became the head of numerous companies over his career, including Security Management Corporation (owner of rental property in Maryland and Florida), DWG Corporation (Arby's and Royal Crown), NVF Company, Sharon Steel Corporation, Pennsylvania Engineering Corporation, Salem Corporation, APL Corporation, Evans Products, Graniteville, and Southeastern Public Service Company.


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