Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!lanl!opus!jhatfiel From: jhatfiel@nmsu.edu (Joseph T. Hatfield) Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl Subject: APL Compilers Message-ID: Date: 9 Mar 90 00:18:05 GMT Sender: news@nmsu.edu Distribution: comp Organization: NMSU Computer Science Lines: 19 > writes: >Is anyone aware of whats been done with APL compilers? Last I >hear no one had developed one. Has anything changed? STSC built an APL compiler for mainframe APL users a few years ago (1986?). It works very nicely and as far as I know has no restrictions on what APL expressions can be compiled. I haven't heard of any APL compilers for PCs or MINIs yet. I suspect that any APL compiler is going to be VERY large and VERY slow (using current state-of-the-art compiler technology) and so impractical for small machines. Of course, now that we have the 16Mbyte 80486 machines, perhaps STSC will make the compiler available for it. Joseph T. Hatfield P.S. I DO work for STSC (as a consultant) however I do not represent them.