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From: rjfrey@kepler1.UUCP (Robert J Frey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
Subject: Re: Dyalog APL vs APL*PLUS UNX
Message-ID: <186@kepler1.UUCP>
Date: 16 Mar 90 19:05:11 GMT
References: <6251@umd5.umd.edu>
Reply-To: rjfrey@kepler1.UUCP (Robert J Frey)
Organization: Kepler Financial Mgmt, Setauket, NY
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In article <6251@umd5.umd.edu> jph@suns.UMD.EDU (J. Patrick Harrington) writes:
>
>    I am interested in a professional APL for a SUN workstation,
>probably a Sparcstation 1. The choice seems to be between the
>APL*PLUS UNX system and Dyalog APL. Has anyone run a comparison
>of these two dialects? ...

We have Dyalog APL running on a SUN Sparc and on 386's. I've used both Dyalog's
and STSC's UNIX-based products and I prefer Dyalog's. This is based, 
however, less on speed benchmarks and more on how well integrated they are 
into the UNIX environment, bundled software and special features such as 
Dyalog's wonderful quadSM facility.

If anyone out there is interested in running some benchmarks, perhaps we could participate in a joint effort. We're having problems with mail, so respond to my faculty address: frey@chaos.sunysb.edu.

-- 
Dr. Robert J Frey, Kepler Financial Management, Ltd.
rjfrey@kepler1.uucp *or* frey@sbcs.sunysb.edu 
voice: (516) 689-6300 * fax: (516) 751-8678