johnson@gregsun.nrtc.northrop.com (Greg Johnson <gjohnson>) (01/20/90)
Is there an apl that has been ported to the Sun-4? I have an old version of the apl that comes with Berkeley Unix; it is the Reeves/Bruner apl. I tried compiling it on my sun, and it compiled but would not run. The effort to port it looked a little daunting. Has someone done the port? Thanks - Greg Johnson
rjfrey@kepler1.UUCP (Robert J Frey) (01/21/90)
In article <5129@gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com> johnson@gregsun.nrtc.northrop.com (Greg Johnson <gjohnson>) writes: >Is there an apl that has been ported to the Sun-4 ... Dyadic Systems and STSC both have good second generation APL's (nested arrays etc.) on the Sun 4. Dyadic's Dyalog APL: MIP Software 33493 W 14 Mile Rd Farmington Hills, MI 48018 (313) 661-5000 Dyadic Systems Park House, The High St. Alton Hampshire GU34 1EN UK 858811 (011-44) 420-87024 STSC's APL: STSC 2115 E Jefferson St. Rockville, MD 20852 (301) 984-5117 I actually use Dyalog APL on both 386's and Sun 4's and recommend it highly. I've used STSC's product on MS/DOS based machines and IBM mainframes and also found them to be fine products. One reason I chose to use Dyadic's product in a UNIX environment is because it was specifically designed to work with that operating system and is well integrated with it. Both Dyadic and STSC have DOS-based products, as well. -- Dr. Robert J Frey, Kepler Financial Management, Ltd. rjfrey@kepler1.uucp *or* frey@sbcs.sunysb.edu voice: (516) 689-6300 * fax: (516) 751-8678
ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) (01/21/90)
In article <5129@gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com> johnson@gregsun.nrtc.northrop.com (Greg Johnson <gjohnson>) writes: >Is there an apl that has been ported to the Sun-4? I have an old version >of the apl that comes with Berkeley Unix; it is the Reeves/Bruner apl. >I tried compiling it on my sun, and it compiled but would not run. The >effort to port it looked a little daunting. Has someone done the port? > >Thanks - Greg Johnson I have been told that one of the problems with this APL is byte order. Someone who has done a lot of work to clean up the code is Ken Yap <ken@rochester.uucp>. Ken's stuff runs on the Sun, using the APL fonts that he has also produced for the screens. -- L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo. ljdickey@water.UWaterloo.ca ljdickey@water.BITNET ljdickey@water.UUCP ..!uunet!watmath!water!ljdickey ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu
ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) (01/22/90)
|I have been told that one of the problems with this APL is byte order. |Someone who has done a lot of work to clean up the code is Ken Yap |<ken@rochester.uucp>. Ken's stuff runs on the Sun, using the |APL fonts that he has also produced for the screens. I expect I'll get another bunch of email asking how to get this. I've got to stop this at the source... What Dickey often neglects to mention is that this APL\11 is a piece of AT&T code in the BSD distribution. It was originally written by Ken Thompson. It is a bare-bones APL having none of the modern features. And it has bugs too. I last ran it on SunOS 3.5. I have no idea what needs to be done to run it under 4.0. It has also been run on a Vax (BSD 4.3) and a Pyramid. The font thing is simply a screen font that you can specify to your shelltool (SunView) or xterm (X11). If you want this code, read this: You have to mail or fax me the first and last pages of your Unix SOURCE licence for V7 or later. Obviously you have to impose the same redistribution condition. You have to get it by ftp. Email only as a last resort; it's bulky. No tapes, diskettes or other physical media. No, I cannot provide context diffs; the changes are too extensive. No maintenance. You get the sources as is.