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From: pollack@uicsl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lang.apl
Subject: Re: APL standards
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Date: Tue, 18-Mar-86 11:56:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 18 11:56:00 1986
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Nf-From: uicsl.UUCP!pollack    Mar 18 10:56:00 1986




re: forums for apl


Since most of the machines on usenet are VAX or smaller Unix
machines, and APL development seems to take place in IBM-derived
industry rather than academia, its not surprising that
usenet is a poor forum for it.

Probably the best forums are held within the companies
that develop and use it (IBM IPSharp & STSC), but who knows
how to get at them?


I'm depressed too. I havent written a one-liner for 6 years.
The APL that comes with unix was hacked together seemingly to
prove the power of yacc. I tried it once, and found it so
ugly and incomplete that I just ignored it.

I keep waiting for the AMPERE WS1 to show up and convince me
to blow my budget on purely aesthetic grounds...


Jordan