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From: dietz@zhmti.UUCP (Dieter H. Zebbedies)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
Subject: Looking for I-APL or APL-90
Keywords: PD APL, source
Message-ID: <4142@zhmti.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 89 17:34:00 GMT
Reply-To: dietz@zhmti.UUCP (Dieter H. Zebbedies)
Organization: Zebb-Hoff Machine Tool, Inc's Automated Mfg. Project, Cleve., OH
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Hello fellow APLers.  After hearing Dr. Iverson speak at a local ACM
chapter here in the area recently, he rekindled my long lost love for
the language.  (I was weaned on APL.SV on a 370/158 back in '76!)

I have a versions of the Thompson/Bruner/Reeves/4.3bsd-contributed APL
on unix, but am interested in a ``modern'' APL.

I understand that there are basically two camps these days: APL2 and
the APL dictionary factions.  Is this true?

Dr. Iverson showed us the dictionary, I believe it was a Quote-Quad
reprint somewhere in '87.  Anyone got the ref. to it so I can order it
from ACM?

Is APL-90 (france?) a dictionary based APL?  Is it binary shareware or
can I get source so as to compile for a Sun, Macintosh, PC?

Ditto for I-APL

He also mentioned the work being done by I.P.Sharp/STSC on SAX.  Dr.
Iverson was very enamoured with this particular implementation, and I
am encouraging everyone to make some noise to I.P.Sharp/STSC to make it
available (and at reasonable pricing to those of us with cheap Suns --
do you know that a 3/50 can be purchased for less than a Mac-II!  Get
real with the licensing fellas!)

What features does each (APL-90 / I-APL) have?  Which is easier to
port?  Is there a "cost-effective" (read ``cheap'') version of an APL
avail. on Suns?

Thanks for the help,

Dietz.
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