dietz@zhmti.UUCP (Dieter H. Zebbedies) (02/14/89)
Hello fellow APLers. After hearing Dr. Iverson speak at a local ACM chapter here in the area recently, he rekindled my long lost love for the language. (I was weaned on APL.SV on a 370/158 back in '76!) I have a versions of the Thompson/Bruner/Reeves/4.3bsd-contributed APL on unix, but am interested in a ``modern'' APL. I understand that there are basically two camps these days: APL2 and the APL dictionary factions. Is this true? Dr. Iverson showed us the dictionary, I believe it was a Quote-Quad reprint somewhere in '87. Anyone got the ref. to it so I can order it from ACM? Is APL-90 (france?) a dictionary based APL? Is it binary shareware or can I get source so as to compile for a Sun, Macintosh, PC? Ditto for I-APL He also mentioned the work being done by I.P.Sharp/STSC on SAX. Dr. Iverson was very enamoured with this particular implementation, and I am encouraging everyone to make some noise to I.P.Sharp/STSC to make it available (and at reasonable pricing to those of us with cheap Suns -- do you know that a 3/50 can be purchased for less than a Mac-II! Get real with the licensing fellas!) What features does each (APL-90 / I-APL) have? Which is easier to port? Is there a "cost-effective" (read ``cheap'') version of an APL avail. on Suns? Thanks for the help, Dietz. -- Dieter H. Zebbedies ('dee-ter ayech 'zeb-ed-eez) Zebb-Hoff Mach. Tool's Automated Manufacturing Project Cleveland, OH (USnail): 9535 Clinton Rd, Cleveland,OH 44144 (+216 631 6100) (+216 741 5994) (UUCP): ...{sun,att,decvax}!cwjcc!zhmti!dietz (CSNET/ARPA/BITNET): dietz%zhmti.uucp@cwjcc.CWRU.EDU
ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) (02/16/89)
In article <4142@zhmti.UUCP> dietz@zhmti.UUCP (Dieter H. Zebbedies) writes: >Dr. Iverson showed us the dictionary, I believe it was a Quote-Quad >reprint somewhere in '87. Anyone got the ref. to it so I can order it >from ACM? You want APL Quote Quad Volume 18, Issue 1, September, 1987. You may request an order form from ACM Order Department, Waverley Press P.O. Box 64145 Baltimore, Maryland USA 21264 I-APL may already be available for the Sun. If not, I am sure that the developers would supply you with source to port to it to the Sun. For more information on this, write to Edward Cherlin, Co-Chairman I-APL Limited 6611 Linville Drive Weed California USA 96094 Anthony CAmacho, Co-Chairman I-APL Limited 2 Blenheim Road St Albans, Herts UK AL1 4N4 >Is APL-90 (france?) a dictionary based APL? no > Is it binary shareware or >can I get source so as to compile for a Sun, Macintosh, PC? I think that for the forseeable future, APL-90 will continue to be a Mac-only product. For this, you should write to Jean-Jacques Girardot Ecole Nationale Superieure de Mines St. Etienne, France I think that the software may be free. -- 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
mrys@ethz.UUCP (Michael Rys) (02/25/89)
In article <2101@water.waterloo.edu> ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) writes: >In article <4142@zhmti.UUCP> dietz@zhmti.UUCP (Dieter H. Zebbedies) writes: > >> Is it [APL90] binary shareware or >>can I get source so as to compile for a Sun, Macintosh, PC? > > >I think that the software may be free. > There was a shareware version of APL90 for the Mac available at APL86 in Manchester U.K., but according to the summer 1988 issue of APL News (Springer Verlag New York) they are turning it into a commercial pro duct. According to the same source you may get it for a UNIX system as well. Cheers...Michael Real-incarnation: Michael Rys; V. Conzettstr.34; CH-8004 Zurich;Switzerland Voice: (++41) (1) 242 35 87 UUCP : mrys@ethz.UUCP IPSANET/ReuterNET: mrys@ipsaint