Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!water!ljdickey
From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
Subject: Re: An APL should be part of GNU
Message-ID: <2084@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: 9 Feb 89 20:54:02 GMT
References: <36229@think.UUCP>
Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <36229@think.UUCP> mjab@think.com writes:
>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?

I-APL was created with the idea in mind that it should be
easily ported to other machines and made freely available.

This might make it a natural for affiliation with the GNU project.

There two people to talk to about this:

	Edward Cherlin, Co-Chairman
	I-APL Limited
	6611 Linville Drive
	Weed California
	USA  96094

	Anthony Camacho, Co-Chairman
	I-APL Limited
	2 Blenheim Road
	St Albans, Herts
	UK  AL1 4N4

It is possible that neither of these people know about the Free
Software Foundation, and it is possible that FSW does not know about
I-APL.  The development of I-APL was funded by private contributions
and the result has been highly praised.  It is not blindingly fast, and
the workspaces are not huge, but it is good, and of all APLs, probably
comes closest to conforming to the standard.

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