mjab@.COM (Michael Berry) (02/08/89)
A recently posted task list for the GNU project of the Free Software
Foundation includes APL as a task noone is doing.
Does someone on this list know enough about I-APL to know if it would be
easy to port it to GNU? The free GNU software is getting ever wider
distribution. If I-APL is not appropriate, are there other APL's that
might be donated?
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 89 01:27:26 EST
From: tower@wheaties.ai.mit.edu (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
To: info-gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu
Subject: latest task list
GNU task list, last updated 24 Jan 1989
Check with gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu, for a possibly more current copy.
If you start working steadily on a project, please let gnu@prep know.
We might have information that could help you; we'd also like to send
you the GNU coding standards.
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4. Other random projects:
An imitation of dbase2 or dbase3 (How dbased!)
A spreadsheet.
An imitation of Page Maker or Ventura Publisher.
Improve the free UCB version of the Ingres database system to
make it competitive with RTI Ingres.
Draw programs for the X window system.
Font editor for the X window system.
A music playing and editing system.
Speech-generation programs.
A Forth system.
A Smalltalk system (this is being worked on).
An APL system. <---------------------*
A Common Lisp system.
A Logo system. (We have one that you can start with,
but certain parts of it are poorly written and must be replaced.)
Optical character scanning programs.
Note that graphics programs should be written to work with
the X window system, a free portable window system from MIT and DEC
that we will be using as the window system for GNU.
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Michael J. A. Berrry
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=============================================ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) (02/10/89)
In article <36229@think.UUCP> mjab@think.com writes: >Does someone on this list know enough about I-APL to know if it would be >easy to port it to GNU? The free GNU software is getting ever wider >distribution. If I-APL is not appropriate, are there other APL's that >might be donated? I-APL was created with the idea in mind that it should be easily ported to other machines and made freely available. This might make it a natural for affiliation with the GNU project. There two people to talk to about this: 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 It is possible that neither of these people know about the Free Software Foundation, and it is possible that FSW does not know about I-APL. The development of I-APL was funded by private contributions and the result has been highly praised. It is not blindingly fast, and the workspaces are not huge, but it is good, and of all APLs, probably comes closest to conforming to the standard. -- 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