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From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
Subject: Re: APL for SunWorkstations ?
Keywords: APL Sun
Message-ID: <3060@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: 9 Mar 90 03:44:30 GMT
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In article <100886@linus.UUCP> hal@paladin.mitre.org (Hal Feinstein) writes:
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>Is anyone aware of whats been done with APL compilers?  Last I 
>heard no one had developed one.  Has anything changed?

Tim Budd, previously of U Arizona and now of U. Oregon wrote a book
on compilers (Springer Verlag) and at one time he was giving it away
for the cost of the media.  The book was reviewed in APL Quote Quad.

STSC has a compiler done by Clark Weidemann.  This is not free.
It requires mainframe APL and an interpreter.  You can call compiled
code from an interpreted function, and vice versa.  It is intended
to provide great speedups to code in an interpreted context.  It does
not, (I think) create complete standalone, compiled modules.
I understand that this has been a great commercial success.

IBM has, I am told, three different APL compiler projects.  Someone
who knows about this is Aiden Falkoff.  I don't think they ever saw
commercial release.

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