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From: pool@milton.u.washington.edu (Jonathan Pool)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
Subject: Re: STSC APL for the Mac
Message-ID: <4753@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 4 Jul 90 16:27:04 GMT
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STSC took over Portable Software's PortaAPL for the Mac and made a few
improvements, then sold it as APL*PLUS for the Mac.  It wasn't bad by
usual APL standards, but fell far short of expectations of Mac
programmers for full access to the Toolbox.  Anyway, STSC promised
further improvements and asked for user feedback.  It got some feedback,
which apparently persuaded it to let the product die rather than
keep developing it.  It turned out that the product had not sufficiently
followed the Mac interface guidelines to let it function on the SE and
the Mac II when these subsequently came out, and STSC never made the
modifications that would let it work on these machines.  Strangely
enough, the original PortaAPL does work on my Mac IIx, while STSC's
adaptation of it crashes on launch.