APL - Re: apl\11 query

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Re: apl\11 query

Peter Jeremy

2005-07-24, 8:20 pm

gregflies1@yahoo.com wrote:
>In the APL FAQ, I noticed a reference to APL\11. This is a small
>implementation of APL that has (IMHO) a tasteful mapping of standard
>ascii characters to APL symbols.
...
>Michael Cain has a copy that he has made publicly available, but it is
>a bit old at this point. (Doesn't compile cleanly with recent versions
>of gcc.)
>
>Is Michael or anyone still maintaining APL\11?

I inherited OpenAPL (an APL\11 variant) from Branko Bratkovic and have
also done a fair bit of work on it (cleaning it up and improving
standards compliance). Branko had added a test-suite and I've been
expanding on it with examples from the (draft) standard.

I've ported it to FreeBSD and (also) found that it's not 64-bit clean.

I've created a SourceForge project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/openapl)
but haven't had time to do much - though Branko's releases are there.
My work is all in a local RCS repository and I need to convert it to CVS
and insert some more history before uploading it.

One item I'd particularly like is a copy of Jenkins, M.A. "Domino --
An APL Primitive Function for Matrix Inversion -- Its Implementation
and Applications" Apl QuoteQuad Vol3 Nr4. I've searched the net but
can only fund references to it and don't have access to old QQ issues.

Anyone interested in helping is welcome to contact me.

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Peter Jeremy
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Mike Kent

2005-07-24, 8:20 pm

Peter Jeremy wrote:

> One item I'd particularly like is a copy of Jenkins, M.A. "Domino --
> An APL Primitive Function for Matrix Inversion -- Its Implementation
> and Applications" Apl QuoteQuad Vol3 Nr4. I've searched the net but
> can only fund references to it and don't have access to old QQ issues.

This article was reprinted in "APL Quote Quad: the Early Years",at
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