Why did IBM’s stock jump an absurd seven bucks as Wall Street went mad last Tuesday? Hesh Wiener, onlie begetter of Technology News of America, is convinced that it’s the new IBM APL compiler: all the computers that conduct those crazy programme trades that have introduced the Triple Witching Hour into the lexicon of ghoulies and ghosties used to frighten naughty children are giant IBM mainframes programmed in APL… Need we say more?