Latest Papers from Vector

• Larger than life automata
  May 30, 2019 by Cliff Reiter
  Larger than life automata have been known for some decades. Recent examples in [1] triggered the author’s interest into investigating them with J. These automata use rules that are a straightforward g
• J-ottings 59 Love Actuarily…
  May 29, 2019 by Norman Thomson
  In my experience of demonstrating APL and later J to potential customers, the one group for which it was always guaranteed to generate excitement was actuaries. I was therefore intrigued to read Jerem
• Taming statistics with limited-domain operators
  May 29, 2019 by Stephen Mansour
  Most students of statistics are overwhelmed by the sheer number of functions and procedures necessary to model and analyze data. To make matters worse, there are many inconsistencies in statistical ta
• Conquering recursion
  May 29, 2019 by John Earnest
  This article presents a set of combinator patterns which can be used to decompose recursive procedures into smaller, more reusable components. Examples of the resulting programming style are contraste
• Writing a Utility function
  August 30, 2016 by Dan Baronet
  This is an article on writing a piece of code in APL that will be reused often. It is aimed at people relatively new to APL. It depends on what you are trying to achieve. Is it supposed to be a blazin