Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!claris!max
From: max@claris.com (Max Rochlin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
Subject: Re: Is APL a dying language?
Message-ID: <7082@claris.com>
Date: 25 Nov 88 19:34:12 GMT
References: <264@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Organization: Claris Corporation, Mountain View CA
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From article <264@blake.acs.washington.edu>, by pool@blake.acs.washington.edu (Jonathan Pool):
> 
> APL may not be dying, but STSC has refused to commit itself to
> upgrading its APL*PLUS for the Macintosh so it will work on a Mac II.
> If you read the usual Mac user magazines you will almost never see
> a mention of any APL for the Mac.

There are two reasons that STSC has refused to commit to upgrading APL*PLUS
for the Macintosh.  The first reason is that they bought another Mac APL
added some of the APL*PLUS features and called it APL*PLUS.  I don't know 
if they have the source code to update.  The second and more important 
reason is that STSC was bought out a while ago and not very interested in the
APL end-user community.  If you want to time-share and buy services from them
they are very interested in you.  STSC isn't the same company it was years
ago ( but then again, neither is most any company in the computer industry).
Al Rose left long ago.  

I just hope that IP SHARPE comes out with a Macintosh APL.

(All the opinions expressed above are mine and do not represent my current
 employer, my past employer, or any future employers.) 

Max Rochlin
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