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From: bandy@well.UUCP (Andrew Scott Beals)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
Subject: Re: Is APL a dying language?
Keywords: minor flammage
Message-ID: <7752@well.UUCP>
Date: 25 Nov 88 17:25:44 GMT
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Reply-To: bandy@well.UUCP (Andrew Scott Beals)
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[please pardon my flames as I do not hold the mac to be a sacred cow]

[oh, and btw, if anyone could recommend a good apl for the mac...]

In article <264@blake.acs.washington.edu> pool@blake.UUCP (Jonathan Pool) writes:
>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.

Could it be that some other company has stolen their mac programming
talent?  In my last job search, I found a number of shops that were proud of
raiding "Entire departments" from other companies.

In short, if your program doesn't work on a Mac2 or under Multifinder,
you're breaking the rules (such as writing directly into the screen).
Programs that do this aren't "too hard" to do upgrades.  [STSC: I do take
contracts.]

>If you read the usual Mac user magazines you will almost never see
>a mention of any APL for the Mac.


Of course not, it doesn't have anything to do with Hypercard, Microsoft
Word, Bill Atkinson or Jean-Louis Gasse'e.  The mac magazines don't give a
hoot about Real Programming or even Real Programming Tools.  The only decent
programming resource is MacTutor.  
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