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From: rbe@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Robert Bernecky)
Subject: Re: Transliteration
Message-ID: <1993Apr26.213642.6052@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM>
Reply-To: rbe@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Robert Bernecky)
Organization: SNake Island Research Inc, Toronto
References: <19930421.115714.447@almaden.ibm.com> <1993Apr22.065519.7969@alf.uib.no>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 93 21:36:42 GMT

In article <1993Apr22.065519.7969@alf.uib.no> barros@uib.no (Pedro Conte de Barros) writes:
>Evan Jennings (ej@vnet.IBM.COM) wrote:
>: In <635727@MTS.cc.Wayne.edu> Robert_Brown@MTS.cc.Wayne.edu writes:
>: 
>: >What we need is not ANOTHER way to represent these, but AGREEMENT on
>: >which SINGLE ONE to use.  Perhaps someone should get this list from Lee,
>: >examine it, decide upon the best scheme, and post the results.
>: 
>:   I think this has essentially been done in the paper "Porting APL
>: Programs via ASCII Transliteration" by J. Mitloehner in the APL92
>: Proceedings.
>: 
>This looks really great. Maybe it could be the start to solve a lot of problems
>which have been discussed here, and which, I think, all boil down to this, lack
>of proper communication of APL code.

It's catbelling time, folks. Does anyone want to Actually Do Something
about this, like running a Workshop at APL93, AND taking responsibility
for producing a status report on agreement (or lack thereof) by the
various vendors, by the END of the APL93 conference?

Bob


Robert Bernecky      rbe@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.com  bernecky@itrchq.itrc.on.ca 
Snake Island Research Inc  (416) 368-6944   FAX: (416) 360-4694 
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