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From: rbe@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Robert Bernecky)
Subject: Re: Who is selling J?
Message-ID: <1993May25.193640.29004@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM>
Reply-To: rbe@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Robert Bernecky)
Organization: Snake Island Research Inc, Toronto
References: <C6zC57.2zJv@austin.ibm.com> <1993May23.201030.18340@csus.edu>
Date: Tue, 25 May 93 19:36:40 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.
 You can get binaries and source for J by anonymous ftp from

watserv1.uwaterloo.ca   (aka watserv1.waterloo.edu)

in the (I think) /languages/apl

directory.

If you send a modest amount of money to Iverson Software Inc,
33 Major St., Toronto Ontario, Canada, they'll send you
Roger Hui's "An Implementation of J" manual as well as 
the source code.

I believe that "modest" means in the $50-80 range, but I can't remember
offhand.

Robert Bernecky      rbe@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.com  
Snake Island Research Inc  (416) 203-0854 
18 Fifth Street, Ward's Island
Toronto, Ontario M5J 2B9 
Canada
