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From: madler@pooh.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
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Subject: [next] Re: APL for the NeXT ?
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Date: 2 Feb 91 03:53:38 GMT
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Archive-name: languages/apl/j/1991-02-01
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Original-posting-by: madler@pooh.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
Original-subject: Re: APL for the NeXT ?
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>> Is there any sort of APL or APL-like language avail for the Next?

Yes.  Iverson (the creator of APL) has come up with the language J.  It
has much of the philosophy and characteristics of APL with a new structure
and format.  You can get a version compiled for the NeXT via anonymous ftp
at watserv1.waterloo.edu in languages/apl/j/next as J_NeXT.tar.Z.  I just
tried it under 2.0 and it seems to work fine.  I know it works under 1.0
(which is what it was compiled for).

I have appended to the end of this posting the readme.doc from J which has
the copyright notice with copying limitations and where to get a manual
from.

By the way, J is not APL.  In some ways it is better, and in others it
is perhaps a little more primitive.  J is still in its infancy, so expect
it to expand and improve significantly ove rthe next few years.

Mark Adler
madler@pooh.caltech.edu

--- readme.doc ---
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