Re: Use of the Name APL



According to Microsoft, APL means "Adventure Programming Language". It is
used with Flight Simulator 2000.

See http://www.microsoft.com/games/flightsimulator/fs2000_devdesk_sdk.asp
for further details.

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"Dave Weintraub" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:SJqse.14927$9a1.1285@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Is IBM, or anyone else, at all concerned about this?
>
> http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=508791.508799
>
> The Agent-based Programming Language: APL
>
> Source Symposium on Applied Computing archive
> Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing table of
> contents
> Madrid, Spain
> SESSION: Agents, interactions, mobility and systems table of contents
> Pages: 27 - 31
> Year of Publication: 2002
> ISBN:1-58113-445-2
> Authors Chang-Hyun Jo University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
> Allen J. Arnold University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
> Sponsor SIGAPP: ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing
> Publisher ACM Press New York, NY, USA
>
>
> Agent-based programming has been emerged as a new programming paradigm
> for the near future. There have been many research work in agent
> computing. However, the software engineering methodology and programming
> languages for agent computing are not yet sufficient and practical.This
> paper proposes a new programming language concept based on the BDI-agent
> model. The new concept has been prototyped by Agent-based Programming
> Language (APL). The prototype system for APL translates the APL source
> into the Java source codes, which can be run on the Java Virtual Machine.
> This paper also describes our implementation scheme of the APL system.
> Examples are also shown to utilize APL for the real-world banking
> application.


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