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no. 6075585 filed 19.44.22  thu 19 mar 1992
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@transferred from ipsa  no. 5152861 filed 19.44.21  thu 19 mar 1992

Alden Desoto's message really strikes home. I think he's put his finger on
something very important to APL's (and J's) future. And kudos to ISI
for being one of the first to distribute something to make this possible.

I've been doing some work in a NeXT environment and would dearly like to have
available an object class that would do APL work. I guess that would be a
workspace (a WOOP ?) to and from which a GUI could send messages.

There's a lot of air devoted to, for example, NextStep as a toolkit that
can drastically reduce (some use the eliminate word) development effort. That
may be the case if you've come from a MS Windows/C environment, but it's not
the case if you want to take advantage of APL. Currently, you can put
together a GUI well enough, but then you've got to use C for the calculation
engine. For those of us bonded to Iverson notation, we really want the best of
both worlds. Are James Wheeler (STSC) or John Scholes (Dyalog) out there
listening?

I'm hope soon to see STSC's APL II Rel 4 which promises to let APL and MS
Windows dance together. That's definitely a step in the right direction.

/Mike Powell

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