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From: madler@piglet.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
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Subject: Re: APL,BASIC
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Date: 13 Nov 90 19:45:02 GMT
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>> Are there any APL or BASIC languages available for the NeXT?

Iverson (the guy who invented APL some 30 years ago) has come up
with a new language called J that has much of the power of APL2,
a cleaner syntax, an ASCII interface, and most importantly, is
really cheap.  It is written in C and is running on many machines,
including the NeXT.  It is still in an early phase, but even as it
is, I find it very useful (the alternative is Mathematica, which is
a major memory hog, so I only use it where it's strong---symbolic
and graphics work).

These guys are right in your town!  Here's the address(es):

Iverson Software Inc.                 Iverson Software Inc.
33 Major Street                       3512 Cameron Mills Road
Toronto, Ontario, Canada  M5S 2K9     Alexandria, Virginia, USA  22305-1103
(416) 925 6096                        (703) 548 1799

It's $24!  (That's not a factorial.)  You can also get it via anonymous
ftp from watserv1.waterloo.edu in languages/apl/J, sans documentation.

Mark Adler
madler@piglet.caltech.edu