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