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From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.lang.apl,comp.org.decus
Subject: Re: looking for apl
Keywords: apl
Message-ID: <1589@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: 26 May 88 13:18:50 GMT
References: <677@cunixc.columbia.edu> <1571@water.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <1571@water.waterloo.edu> ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu I write:
>In article <677@cunixc.columbia.edu> dsm@cunixc.columbia.edu (David Millman) writes:
>>
>>Does anyone know of (or have) a decent unix APL system?
>>Any comments on those you may have anyway (but, I assume, don't like)?
>
>(1) There is the Reeves-Bruner version of APL that is distributed with
>4.3 BSD.  I think that an early version of this was years ago a decus
>distribution.  There are known bugs with this and the BSD version.  The
>problem here is that many people have done fixes, but I think that the
>source, BSD, does not incorporate them, and still distributes the bad
>stuff.  But, if you have a UNIX license, you should check with Ken Yap,
>ken@rochester.uucp, for a debugged version which I think may be the
>current best.  If anyone knows otherwise, I would like to hear about
>it.



Thos Sumner ( root@cca.ucsf.edu ), reminds me that Timothy A. Budd 
( budd@mist.cs.orst.edu ) has been working on APL Compiler that works
in conjunction with the Thompson-Reeves-Bruner APL that comes with some
unix systems.  Preliminary reports on this PD APL compiler have been
published in APL Quote Quad  (Proceedings of APL83 ? ) and in a
technical report (TR 81-17) from Department of Computer Science at the
University of Arizona.

Budd's book "An APL Compiler", published by Springer Verlag, has
just appeared, and a review can be seen in the June, 1988, issue of
APL Quote Quad.

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