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From: phmb@otter.hpl.hp.com (Peter Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
Subject: Re: APL Survey 89, summary
Message-ID: <4020001@otter.hpl.hp.com>
Date: 13 Feb 89 10:37:43 GMT
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Please excuse my ignorance, but who are STSC? Where do they live, and
how do you get their interpreter.

For the record, I use Hewlett Packard 3000 APL. It is a little old
but works remarkably well. It only runs on a series III (+/- 1975
technology) since HP didn't migrate the special microcode assist.
This interpreter has an interesting extension 'APLGOL' with loops
and the like, I feel that it defeats the object of the exercise but
perhaps it apeals to some.

I also use a home-rolled pascal implimentation which is not very robust,
but is good for trying new ideas - it runs on HP1000,HP3000, HP Pascal
workstations and I am currently porting it to a Vectra PC. 

I have also played with a version that integrats APL and Lisp - a very
powerful combination.


Peter Brooks