Several of us own a 'J vade mecum' (a.k.a., PocketPC Phone with J installed). ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Eugene McDonnell <[email protected]>
Ken Iverson adopted "The American Heritage Dictionary" published by Houghton Mifflin Company as a standard source of words. In it, "vade mecum" is defined as 1. "A useful thing that a person constantly carries with him" .2. "A guidebook or ready reference book. [Latin,"go with me"] I'm looking at mine just now, and see that it was published (c) 1976 APL Press, Pleasantville NY. It's The size of a playing card, and has reference information on both sides. I can't be sure, but I think that I had a small staff to aid me. ________________________________ From: Roger Hui [email protected] APL Vade Mecum was an APL reference card the size of a credit card. Nowadays you can have an APL computer of that size. ----- Original Message ----- From: Nollaig MacKenzie <[email protected]> Date: Friday, June 26, 2009 15:20 Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] more ancient history To: Programming forum <[email protected]> > > On 2009.06.26 14:17:36, you, > the extraordinary Eugene McDonnell, emitted: > > > > What is an "APL Vade Mecum" > > 'vadere', I think, means 'go'; so 'APL vade mecum' would > be an APL go-with-me, so a portable APL something? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
