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From: dondorp@ursula.fwi.uva.nl (Erwin Dondorp (I84))
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Subject: Re: APL for SunWorkstations ?
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Date: 19 Mar 90 10:00:08 GMT
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jaxon@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu writes:
>I love the idea that APL fits into a yacc grammar.
>I take it that your APL dialect is not APL2-like nor ISO conforming!

C-APL (as it is called) is a yacc-based APL.
I have never seen a formal destcription of ISO-APL.
I also had only one encounter with a real APL, and not for longer than
about 30 minutes. Therefore C-APL's math operators are the same,
but everything else is weird.....
	Erwin.