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From: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt )
Subject: Re: Embedding J/APL/etc. into a program... (like elisp in EMACS)
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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1992 14:46:09 GMT
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In article <1992Jun16.182555.743@sspiff.ampr.ab.ca> dje@sspiff.ampr.ab.ca (Doug Evans) writes:
>volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt) writes:
>>be run w/o change on several platforms (PC, RS6000, 680x0).
>680x0? Really? (Just curious).

Indeed.  Mac and Atari (Amiga too I'd assume but I don't really care :-)

>In it's heyday (dare I call it that), STSC's APL*PLUS/UNX was ported to
>more platforms than I can remember, easily more than a dozen (all of them
>Unix, of course :-).

Well, I didn't count Unix, for two reasons:

(1) Porting a Unix APL to a different CPU should be much easier than any
native -> target port.

(2) I can't afford ANY of the current Unix APL versions.  I can't afford
STSC either (it costs twice as much as IBM APL2 for DOS, and that says
something -- outpricing IBM).

That's why I dream of a GNU-APL under X Window.

-- Volker
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