APL Quote Quad: Difference between revisions

The first [[wikipedia:Association for Computing Machinery|ACM]]-affiliated Quote-Quad publication was a reprint of volume 2, number 2, in the September 1970 issue of ''SIGPLAN Notices'' (the original had been published by Foster in July 1970).<ref>ACM ''SIGPLAN Notices'' [https://dl.acm.org/toc/sigplan/1970/5/9 Volume 5, Issue 9]. 1970-09.</ref> The reprint followed a request from the APL community for a Special Interest Group for APL ([[SIGAPL]]) to be formed under the ACM, which was denied on the basis that SIGPLAN, a special interest group for all programming languages, already existed. This process ended after Quote Quad volume 3 number 4 (February 1972; reprinted in April<ref>ACM ''SIGPLAN Notices'' [https://dl.acm.org/toc/sigplan/1972/7/4 Volume 7, Issue 4]. 1972-04.</ref>), which made up the majority of that issue of the Notices.<ref name="roots"/> Foster continued distribution; between 400 and 500 copies of volume 3 number 5 were issued.<ref name="intro" />

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