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- From: ljdickey@math.uwaterloo.ca (L.J. Dickey)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
- Subject: Re: What's J, etc.
- Message-ID: <Bzq4z5.3qy@math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 18:06:40 GMT
- References: <9212221607.AA27593@top.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1992Dec22.181944.28862@csus.edu>
- Organization: University of Waterloo
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- In article <1992Dec22.181944.28862@csus.edu> emclean@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (Emmett McLean) writes:
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- >In article <9212221607.AA27593@top.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- > [ dbrownfi@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu writes ]
- ...
- >> 2. Is there a shareware/PD APL interpreter available for MS-DOS?
- > Yes, at watserv1. Check out the file apl-j for details.
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- There are at least two other APLs at Watserv1, TryAPL2 and I-APL.
- Study the index. It is usually up to date.
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- >> 3. Has anyone ever come up with an APL compiler?
- > From what I understand, much of Manugistics APL compiles.
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- I think that to use this compiler (previously known as STSC) you have
- to be running on the mainframe.
-
- > I don't know about IBM's product APL2.
-
- There is a compiler for at least one IBM APL product available from
- Interprocess Systems in Atlanta.
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- There is also the Tim Budd Compiler. It was documented in a book
- published by Springer Verlag. It is free. Write to Budd at Oregon
- State University (budd@cs.orst.edu> I think that Sam Sirlin
- <sam@kalessin.jpl.nasa.gov> is a regualar user of a modified version of
- this tool.
-
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- Prof. Leroy J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, U of Waterloo, Canada N2L 3G1
- Internet: ljdickey@math.UWaterloo.ca
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