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From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
Subject: Re: apl for suns?
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Date: 21 Jan 90 12:55:59 GMT
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In article <5129@gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com> johnson@gregsun.nrtc.northrop.com (Greg Johnson <gjohnson>) writes:
>Is there an apl that has been ported to the Sun-4?  I have an old version
>of the apl that comes with Berkeley Unix; it is the Reeves/Bruner apl.
>I tried compiling it on my sun, and it compiled but would not run.  The
>effort to port it looked a little daunting.  Has someone done the port?
>
>Thanks - Greg Johnson

I have been told that one of the problems with this APL is byte order.  
Someone who has done a lot of work to clean up the code is Ken Yap
<ken@rochester.uucp>.  Ken's stuff runs on the Sun, using the
APL fonts that he has also produced for the screens.

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