greg (11/22/82)
I would be interested in starting a discussion on improvement of the APL programming environment. What nice aspects of other programming environments would people like to see? Examples that come to mind are: 1) nice history mechanism - have the computer remember the last several things you did, and allow you to edit and re-execute lines previously typed. 2) make it more convenient to do more than one thing at the same time (have a nice multi-processing capability that is integrated into the APL world) 3) have files appear to be APL arrays. Instead of doing quad-opens, quad-seeks, etc., I would like to manipulate the contents of a file without realizing it is not a garden-variety APL character vector, numeric matrix, or whatever else I want it to be. 4) have a nice screen-oriented APL text editor; perhaps have a fancy trace mode in which APL expressions get highlighted on the screen as they are executed. There are APL implementations that have fairly nice environments. How about providing descriptions of particularly nice or novel features of some of them? - Greg Johnson U Wis - Madison