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From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
Subject: Re: Function layout - a non-issue?
Message-ID: <2293@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: 5 May 89 03:30:13 GMT
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Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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>In article <1193@infbs.UUCP> hafer@infbs.UUCP (Udo Hafermann) writes:
>>Are there any APL implementations which preserve the function source
>>text as entered by the programmer, instead of just throwing all
>
>If I understand the question correctly, several do.  In particular,
>the STSC APL for 80286 and 386 allows you to put white space where 
>you want it, and so does MicroAPL's APL.68000 for the Amiga (and 
>probably for Mac and Atari.)

Please correct me if I am wrong, but I think that the 
first APL to keep the white space was WATCOM APL for the
IBM PC, and STSC was the next to step in line.  I discovered
this week that SAX APL (Sharp APL for UNIX) does not crush white.

I am pleasantly surprised about APL.68000.  I have version 6.05c running
on my Atari ST, and (unfortunately), it is a white crusher.  I hope
the next Atari release removes the white crusher.

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