[comp.lang.apl] APL Texts.

alan@elroy.UUCP (Alan S. Mazer) (12/16/86)

I was going to recommend this one, too.  It's a great book and very popular.
The actual title is "APL - An Interactive Approach" by Leonard Gilman and Allen
Rose (John Wiley and Sons, 1976).  Probably the best you can find if you want
something readable.

-- Alan Mazer (mazer@csvax.caltech.edu  or  cit-vax!elroy!alan)

leader@mimir.claremont.edu (Leader, Jeffery) (06/28/90)

In preparation for giving an APL course...Does any know if Wilbur R. 
LePage's "Applied APL Programming" is still in print? If not can 
anyone suggest a book which they have used that students have liked? 
It's been my experience that (apart from LePage's book) most APL texts 
are not well-received by the students. Thanks.

haspel@Morgan.COM (Charles H. Haspel) (06/29/90)

In article <7630@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>, leader@mimir.claremont.edu (Leader, Jeffery) writes:
> In preparation for giving an APL course...Does any know if Wilbur R. 
> LePage's "Applied APL Programming" is still in print? 
 
I don't know about LePage's book, but I suggest:

For APL2--APL2 at a Glance; Brown, Pakin and Polivka, Prentice-Hall 1988
For APL*Plus--APL An Interactive Approach (3ed ed.), Gilman and Rose,
              John Wiley and Sons 1984.
 
The latter has some specific APL*Plus stuff, but is OK for most APL's but
APL2.  Chuck Haspel