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From: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt )
Subject: Re: Idioms
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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 20:14:32 GMT
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In article <C56E8z.D3@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> "David Liebtag" <LIEBTAG@STLVM20.VNET.IBM.COM> writes:
>IBM's APL2/PC includes a function called IDIOMS.  IDIOMS is a fullscreen
>application that displays several hundred idioms for performing a wide
>range of common tasks.  The function facility's includes searching
>and extraction of idioms for use in programs.

And it is very well done, too.  Browse around in the IDIOMS workspace, and
grap a copy of the Toronto Toolkit, and you will get a feel for APL.  I have
been using APL since 86, and there's still a lot of stuff in those two sources
that was new to me, or that solved problems in a way that I had never thought
about.

-- Volker
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