Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
Path: watmath!ljdickey
From: ljdickey@math.waterloo.edu (L. J. Dickey)
Subject: Re: compiling APL ?
Message-ID: <BppsJz.98B@math.waterloo.edu>
Keywords:  apl compiler
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <victor.708267238@techunix.technion.ac.il>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1992 04:02:23 GMT


In article <victor.708267238@techunix.technion.ac.il> Victor
	(victor@techunix.technion.ac.il) wrote:
>
>What is  state of the art in  compiling APL? 

I have heard about six projects:

(1) Work by Driscoll & Orth at IBM.  This has become a commercial
    product marketed by Interprocess Systems.

(2) Work by Wai-Mee Ching at IBM.  See recent issues of Conference
    Proceedings for papers by Ching.

(3) Work by Aiden Falkoff at IBM.  (is this rumour or truth?).

(4) STSC has a compiler for customers who use their mainframe product.
    I think this was largely Clark Wiedman's work.

(5) Tim Budd <budd@cs.orst.edu> has a compiler that he gives away free.
    This has been under development for quite a time, maybe since 1983
    (?), and has also been reported in APL conference proceedings, and
    in a book published by Springer Verlag.

(6) ACORN by Bob Bernecky <rbe@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM>.  The acronym
    means Apl to C On Real Numbers.  His target then, as now, is
    large, parallel machines. See recent APL Conference Proceedings.

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