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Subject: Re: APL for the Mac
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Date: Mon, 24-Nov-86 14:06:26 EST
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I know of three APL's for the Mac:
 
	APL.68000
	APL.Plus
	APL 90

The first two are about $395 each, and the other is shareware.

The most mature, APL.68000, may be obtained from from

	Spencer Organization, Inc.
	366 Kinderkamack Road
	P.O. Box 248
	Westwood, New Jersey 07675
	(201)-666-6011

or from

	Micro APL Limited, 
	Unit 1F, Nine Elms Industrial Estate
	87 Kirtling Street
	London  SW8 5BP 
	(01)-622-0395

This APL has been around for quite a while, and is relatively
bug free in the core code.  I have not tried the Mac version
but other versions of APL.68000 are quite robust.

The second, APL*Plus, is based on what was previously called PortaAPL,
and comes from 

	STSC, Inc
	2115 East Jefferson Street
	Rockville, MD 20852
	(301)-984-5000

STSC has been in the APL business for 17 years, has a successful APL
product for the PC, and claim that this new release is fully compatible
with that and its mainframe products.

The third, APL 90, comes from

	Jean-Jacques Girardot
	Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines
	St. Etienne, France

or from

	Fred Gross
	New Products Editor
	1100 Richards Ave.
	Santa Fe, New Mexico
	(505)-827-7872
 
The main problem with this release of APL 90 for North Americans is
that it uses the French keyboard layout.
Fred wants you to send two floppies and the cost of postage
before he sends you his latest copy of APL 90.

There are reviews in the latest (Dec., 86) and forthcoming (Mar. 87) 
issues of APL Quote Quad.