joec@Morgan.COM (Joe Collins) (11/01/89)
We are considering APL2 on a PC for our (trading) application. How well does it work on the PC? How does it compare to STSC APL? Can APL2 readily read non-APL files on the PC, i.e. LOTUS PRN files? Thanks in advance, joec@morgan.com
amull@Morgan.COM (Andrew P. Mullhaupt) (11/01/89)
I have been able to read and write files from Lotus 123, Microsoft FORTRAN, (and many other MS languages) and both Turbo Pascal and Turbo C into APL2/PC for IBM. Reading the other way depends on if you write the file as a 'flat' file or an APL type file. It is not so easy to get an )OUT created file with nontrivial APL array structure into another language, but character files are not a big problem. APL2/PC provides special functions for converting files into and out of APL form, and these work pretty well with ASCII text files. Once you get the data into APL2 as a character vector, you can do what you want. Later, Andrew Mullhaupt Disclaimer: Any opinions expressed above are not necessarily those of Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.