ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) (12/13/89)
> Can you make available your changes to apl-11 to make it run on a Sun3? > I've played with it a little (the one from the 4.3 distrib tape) but > I've never quite gotten it to work... No, I did a massive lint check and also reformatted the code with cb (or was it indent?). In retrospect maybe I shouldn't have done the latter, but my eyes really hurt looking at the code and I thought maybe Berkeley would take the updated version.
amull@Morgan.COM (Andrew P. Mullhaupt) (12/14/89)
In article <1989Dec12.180556.20137@cs.rochester.edu>, ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) writes: > > Can you make available your changes to apl-11 to make it run on a Sun3? > > I've played with it a little (the one from the 4.3 distrib tape) but > > I've never quite gotten it to work... > > No, I did a massive lint check and also reformatted the code with cb > (or was it indent?). In retrospect maybe I shouldn't have done the > latter, but my eyes really hurt looking at the code and I thought maybe > Berkeley would take the updated version. This is too close to home. I can't really go into specifics because Arthur would kill me, but I've had a very similar experience with our own interpreter and my brand new OS: SCO UNIX System V/386 r3.2, especially the part about the source code hurting the eyes. If it wasn't proprietary, there are parts of that source which would make the Obfuscated C contest look like the 'Over-verbose COBOL contest'. Also: I can't run the code through cb cause cb breaks when I try... Do all APL interpreters get written by people with very personal definitions of readability? Later, Andrew Mullhaupt
ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) (12/15/89)
|Do all APL interpreters get written by people with very personal |definitions of readability? I sense you are about to get on a hobbyhorse about languages and readability. It wasn't much worse than some postings to source newsgroups. The point was that I was doing to make some significant hacks to the code and I decided that if it was going to be revamped I might at least have a standard indentation style to make MY life easier. The generalization based on a sample of two is not justified.
jaxon@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu (12/15/89)
>Do all APL interpreters get written by people with very personal >definitions of readability? More often by those with very personal definitions for Format, File functions, Matrix Divide, and Strand Notation (to name a few of the common motivators). My interpreter source is tidy, but you need an editor with cross-reference features to read it with the correct rhythm and inflection. I have a question on a different subject: Would anyone support modifying a Fortran 77 vectorizer to produce APL or APL2 (or even Dictionary APL) output? Reply to jaxon@uicsrd.uiuc.edu (or here).