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From: mjab@.COM (Michael Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
Subject: An APL should be part of GNU
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Date: 8 Feb 89 15:57:09 GMT
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A recently posted task list for the GNU project of the Free Software
Foundation includes APL as a task noone is doing.  

Does someone on this list know enough about I-APL to know if it would be
easy to port it to GNU?  The free GNU software is getting ever wider
distribution.   If I-APL is not appropriate, are there other APL's that 
might be donated?

     Date: Wed, 8 Feb 89 01:27:26 EST
     From: tower@wheaties.ai.mit.edu (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
     To: info-gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu
     Subject: latest task list

     GNU task list, last updated 24 Jan 1989

     Check with gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu, for a possibly more current copy.

     If you start working steadily on a project, please let gnu@prep know.
     We might have information that could help you; we'd also like to send
     you the GNU coding standards.
     .
     .
     .

     4. Other random projects:

     An imitation of dbase2 or dbase3 (How dbased!)

     A spreadsheet.

     An imitation of Page Maker or Ventura Publisher.

     Improve the free UCB version of the Ingres database system to
     make it competitive with RTI Ingres.

     Draw programs for the X window system.

     Font editor for the X window system.

     A music playing and editing system.

     Speech-generation programs.

     A Forth system.

     A Smalltalk system (this is being worked on).

     An APL system.         <---------------------*

     A Common Lisp system.

     A Logo system.  (We have one that you can start with,
     but certain parts of it are poorly written and must be replaced.)

     Optical character scanning programs.

     Note that graphics programs should be written to work with
     the X window system, a free portable window system from MIT and DEC
     that we will be using as the window system for GNU.


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