Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
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From: ljdickey@math.uwaterloo.ca (L.J. Dickey)
Subject: APL\11 source now available
Message-ID: <C5JqGs.8Cu@math.uwaterloo.ca>
Keywords: apl unix  Bruner Reeves Thompson APL\11 source
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Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 22:29:16 GMT

The source code for the APL\11 interpreter is now available for
distribution.  There is a license, and there are conditions, but it is
free.  This comes to us thanks to the efforts of Michael Cain
<mcain@advtech.uswest.com>, of U S WEST Advanced Technologies, who
managed to wheedle and cajole the right people.  This interpreter is
well known.  It started life as the brain child of Ken Thompson at Bell
Laboratories, and the work was carried on by John Bruner and Anthony
Reeves, graduate student and supervisor, who were then both at Purdue
University.  Since that time the program was distributed mainly by
Berkeley Distribution Systems (BDS), but fixes and upgrades seemed
never to make their way onto the master tape, and so never got
updated.  There is some fine work cone by Ken Yap that I would like to
see make its way into this code.  Ken removed some byte order
dependencies, cleaned up the code a lot, and fixed some bugs.  (One
horrendous Bug Ken fixed was the one that produced wrong answers for
-\1 2 3.)

Look in the directory languages/apl/apl.11 on the machine
watserv1.uwaterloo.ca.

Lee Dickey

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