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From: ljdickey@math.uwaterloo.ca (L.J. Dickey)
Subject: Re: Who is selling J?
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References: <C6zC57.2zJv@austin.ibm.com> <1993May23.201030.18340@csus.edu>
Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 21:34:20 GMT

In article <1993May23.201030.18340@csus.edu> rmallory@meridian.csci.csusb.edu.csci.csusb.edu (Rob Mallory) writes:
>
> Wasn't there a public-domain version of J a few years ago?
> I just got my first taste of APL from Iverson's transcript
> of his Turing Award lecture. I can honestly tell you that
> I was the *only* one in a (senior) Seminar class of 30 students
> who actually understood, (and liked) the syntax and semantics 
> of APL.   As I am probably the only student on campus :( who
> is interested in the language, I doubt out department is willing
> to fork out $2100 for APL2/X for our RS6000; but I'd definately
> be interested in a cheaper (free) version to play around with.
> If there isn't a freeware version of J or variant or APL around,
> I guess I'd be satisfied by some source for a FFT written in
> the language.

The source code for J and some executables (including one for the 
RS6000) is available by anonymous FTP from the wonderful waterloo
archives on   watserv1.uwaterloo.ca  .  
Start your search in the directory    languages/apl/j  .

Lee Dickey

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