An old math teacher does a lot with APL. He is still using his workspaces under winblows and considered *nix except for reports about deficiencys. He has been using APL this for 20+ years. I have told him about the ease of use for Suse and its update system. I have told him about Grub and lilo for multibooting. Is there an *nix APL specific list? If someone is looking to do serious work with APL or to promote it he is the man to ask all he needs is a complete workspace. CWSIV
Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
An old math teacher does a lot with APL. He is still using his workspaces under winblows and considered *nix except for reports about deficiencys. He has been using APL this for 20+ years.
Try http://www.acm.org/sigapl/index.htm I don't think there's a free version of APL but there are certainly commercial versions that ought to cost no more than the Windows equivalent - in particular IBM's APL2 is still going. Amongst the languages that come with SuSE, Python is probably closest in 'feel' to APL - though of course, a lot more readable. It might be worthwhile trying also. -- JDL
On Thursday 20 May 2004 08:24, John Lamb wrote:
Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
An old math teacher does a lot with APL. He is still using his workspaces under winblows and considered *nix except for reports about deficiencys. He has been using APL this for 20+ years.
Try http://www.acm.org/sigapl/index.htm
I don't think there's a free version of APL but there are certainly commercial versions that ought to cost no more than the Windows equivalent - in particular IBM's APL2 is still going.
Amongst the languages that come with SuSE, Python is probably closest in 'feel' to APL - though of course, a lot more readable. It might be worthwhile trying also.
-- JDL
There *are* free APL interpreters and even compilers. Check out http://www.thefreecountry.com/compilers/apl.shtml In particular I would recommend a+ that works in cooperation with with XEmacs (not with Emacs). It will generate an automatic copy of a session that you can choose to save or discard at the end. As to the readability of Python vs APL: always remember that to a Chinese Chinese characters are better readable than our Latin alphabet. Best regards, -- Jos van Kan
Jos van Kan wrote:
Amongst the languages that come with SuSE, Python is probably closest in 'feel' to APL - though of course, a lot more readable. It might be worthwhile trying also.
-- JDL
There *are* free APL interpreters and even compilers. Check out http://www.thefreecountry.com/compilers/apl.shtml In particular I would recommend a+ that works in cooperation with with XEmacs (not with Emacs). It will generate an automatic copy of a session that you can choose to save or discard at the end.
The download didn't include and xemacs stuff, though I got kapl.ttf and a+ isntalled. Can you say where I can get the xemacs stuff?
As to the readability of Python vs APL: always remember that to a Chinese Chinese characters are better readable than our Latin alphabet.
Perhaps: âáîÍÄ-*+ÏÓ«ß!÷ô~èç¸ð?ÉÏ -- JDL
On Sunday 23 May 2004 21:34, John Lamb wrote: (snip)
The download didn't include and xemacs stuff, though I got kapl.ttf and a+ isntalled. Can you say where I can get the xemacs stuff?
As to the readability of Python vs APL: always remember that to a Chinese Chinese characters are better readable than our Latin alphabet.
Perhaps:
âáîÍÄ-*+ÏÓ«ß!÷ô~èç¸ð?ÉÏ
-- JDL
In Suse 9.0 Pro XEmacs is included, I'm not sure about 9.0 Personal. But if you don't have it, you can obtain it from the suse ftp site. If you don't like a+ (it's not for purists) you also could try: http://www.microapl.co.uk/apl/ that is more like classic APL. As to your (admittedly very convincing) last argument I don't know what to say... It's neither Latin, nor APL nor (they say) Chinese :-) Best regards, -- Jos van Kan
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