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From: stripes@eng.umd.edu (Joshua Osborne)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
Subject: Re: APL for SunWorkstations ?
Keywords: APL Sun
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Date: 8 Mar 90 23:50:29 GMT
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In article <100886@linus.UUCP> hal@paladin.mitre.org (Hal Feinstein) writes:
>
>Is anyone aware of whats been done with APL compilers?  Last I 
>heard no one had developed one.  Has anything changed?
Both IBM and STSC have (at least) one.  The APL2 version handles just about all
of the "clasic APL" (i.e. no, or almost no APL2 enhancments).  STSC's is
probbly the same, but it just punts what it doesn't understand to the
interpreter...
I don't know much about the APL2 compiler.  I don't know much more then that
about the APL*PLUS one.  The APL*PLUS on only runs on IBM/370s.  It can make
use of performance hints given in comments (someting like like "int A[]" to
indicate that A is a vecrtor of integers...).

Disclaimer: I worked for STSC about 2+ years ago, and still have relitaves that
do...
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