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From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
Subject: Re: APL interper for UNIX ?
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Date: 19 Nov 89 01:58:01 GMT
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In article <3537@hydra.gatech.EDU> mg27@prism.gatech.EDU (Michael J. Gourlay) writes:
>
>  Is there an APL interpretter for UNIX based machines? Here at 
>Georgia Tech, there isn't one, and I'd like to install one. Does
>anybody have info on where the source code, or binary code for
>such a program might be in net.land?  I'd appreciate any info at all.


There are several.

Commercial products:

	(1) SAX (Sharp APL for UNIX).

	(2) STSC*PLUS/UNX.

	(3) Dyalog APL.

All are great systems and integrated to varying degrees with UNIX.

Free:

	(1) APL\11.  We got ours from the BSD UNIX tape. 
	I think that the most bug-free version has been
	worked up by Ken Yap ("ken@rochester.uucp").
	He solved certain byte order problems and added
	a character set for machines with bit-mapped screens.

	(2) I have heard about something distributed by DECUS
	but have no experience with it.  (I suspect that (1)
	is a sequel to (2).)

	(3) I-APL, maybe soon to be distributed by
	Free Software Foundation (the Gnu people)?
	Write to FSF and ask for progress report.

	(4) Work in progress:  J, a new "dictionary" APL.
	It may be a year before this sees the light of day.

Proprietary:

	(1) A.  Developed by Arthur Whitney at Morgan Stanley
	in New York.  Not for sale.


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