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The '''ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad''', formerly '''APL Quote-Quad''', was an APL newsletter published by [[SIGAPL]], part of the [[wikipedia:Association for Computing Machinery|Association for Computing Machinery]]. Started as '''SHARE*APL\360''' by its initial editor and distributor, [[Garth Foster]], Quote Quad was the foremost source for news about APL during its early development as a programming language. Proceedings from most [[APL conference]]s were issued by Quote Quad. Quote Quad and the APL conference gradually became less prominent in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and [[Vector journal]] took on the role of primary APL publication. The last issue of Quote Quad was volume 35, issue 4 in December 2007. | The '''ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad''', formerly '''APL Quote-Quad''', was an APL newsletter published by [[SIGAPL]], part of the [[wikipedia:Association for Computing Machinery|Association for Computing Machinery]]. Started as '''SHARE*APL\360''' by its initial editor and distributor, [[Garth Foster]], Quote Quad was the foremost source for news about APL during its early development as a programming language. Proceedings from most [[APL conference]]s were issued by Quote Quad. Quote Quad and the APL conference gradually became less prominent in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and [[Vector journal]] took on the role of primary APL publication. The last issue of Quote Quad was volume 35, issue 4 in December 2007. | ||
The APL Quote Quad is named after the [[glyph]] [[Quote Quad]], <source lang=apl inline>⍞</source>, which can be used to print text to the [[session]]. For this reason its name is sometimes written as simply "⍞". | |||
== History == | == History == | ||