Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
Path: watmath!ljdickey
From: ljdickey@math.uwaterloo.ca (L.J. Dickey)
Subject: Re: What's J, etc.
Message-ID: <Bzq4z5.3qy@math.uwaterloo.ca>
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <9212221607.AA27593@top.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1992Dec22.181944.28862@csus.edu>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:06:40 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.181944.28862@csus.edu> emclean@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (Emmett McLean) writes:

>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.

There are at least two other APLs at Watserv1, TryAPL2 and I-APL.
Study the index.  It is usually up to date.

>>     3. Has anyone ever come up with an APL compiler?
>      From what I understand, much of Manugistics APL compiles.

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.

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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