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From: wgilbert@aftermath.waterloo.edu (William Gilbert)
Subject: Re: APL,BASIC
Organization: University of Waterloo
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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 90 22:19:12 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Nov13.221912.5326@aftermath.waterloo.edu>
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In article <1990Nov13.194502.27179@nntp-server.caltech.edu> madler@piglet.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) writes:
>
>>> 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'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

I also put J on sonata.cc.purdue.edu under pub/next/binaries/APL.tar.Z

Will Gilbert,   NeXT mail: wgilbert@fatou.UWaterloo.ca