APL - free apl interprter for XP

Author

free apl interprter for XP

Michel Dumontier

2008-02-03, 4:00 am

anyone know a free apl interpreter for Windows XP even if it has a very very
small subset of APL, just for teaching in schools? introducing mathematical
tools of thought. (Not APLSE that executes in a small DOS window).

kai

2008-02-03, 7:00 pm

Pure curiosity:

Did you bother to try "free apl interpreter" in the search box of this
group, or at Google?

Kai

Guy.Larocque097@gmail.com

2008-02-03, 7:00 pm

On Feb 3, 4:41 am, "Michel Dumontier" <mjdumont...@free.fr> wrote:
> anyone know a free apl interpreter for Windows XP even if it has a very very
> small subset of APL, just for teaching in schools? introducing mathematical
> tools of thought. (Not APLSE that executes in a small DOS window).

Visit the web sites of the APL vendors. You may find
some information of APL versions for education.

Guy Larocque

nospam

2008-02-04, 4:00 am

At least with IBM's free Try/APL2, the DOS window can be maximized to
full-screen. That should be adequate if you're introducing APL, and not
Windows programming techniques.

"Michel Dumontier" <mjdumontier@free.fr> wrote in message
news:47a58c6d$0$1148$426a74cc@news.free.fr...
> anyone know a free apl interpreter for Windows XP even if it has a very
> very small subset of APL, just for teaching in schools? introducing
> mathematical
> tools of thought. (Not APLSE that executes in a small DOS window).
>

llund

2008-02-04, 7:01 pm

On Feb 3, 2:41 am, "Michel Dumontier" <mjdumont...@free.fr> wrote:
> anyone know a free apl interpreter for Windows XP even if it has a very very
> small subset of APL, just for teaching in schools? introducing mathematical
> tools of thought. (Not APLSE that executes in a small DOS window).

I've been working on porting A+ to Windows. It will be many w

s
yet, but I
will eventually finish it. Anyone who is interested in getting
notified when
it is done just give me your e-mail address.

Jane Sullivan

2008-02-04, 7:01 pm

In message
<95d2bfb6-7c7b-4a3d-85f7-c771fe5685a9@v17g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>,
llund <lorin.lund@gmail.com> writes
>On Feb 3, 2:41 am, "Michel Dumontier" <mjdumont...@free.fr> wrote:
>
>I've been working on porting A+ to Windows. It will be many w

s
>yet, but I
>will eventually finish it. Anyone who is interested in getting
>notified when
>it is done just give me your e-mail address.

I thought that had already been done.
See http://www.vector.org.uk/aflat/

How does your version differ from this?
--
Jane Sullivan

Bob Armstrong

2008-02-04, 7:01 pm

On Feb 3, 2:41 am, "Michel Dumontier" <mjdumont...@free.fr> wrote:
> anyone know a free apl interpreter for Windows XP even if it has a very very small subset of APL, just for teaching in schools? introducing mathematical tools of thought.

4th.CoSy is all free and open code . It's concepts are abstracted from
APL and K as you can see from my recent post on "atomic" apply . It is
all in a very modern Forth named Reva with a small but brilliant
global community . A good indication of 4th.CoSy's current state is
that I just used some pointers from Ron Aaron , the main author of
Reva , to Intel's algorithms for x^y to implement logs ,
exponentials , and hyperbolics .

If you have some brilliant students who are interested not just in APL
but in the issues involved in creating one , they could add
significantly to the community . http://www.cosy.com/CoSy/ is the
front door .

Doug White

2008-02-06, 6:59 pm

Keywords:
In article <47a58c6d$0$1148$426a74cc@news.free.fr>, "Michel Dumontier" <mjdumontier@free.fr> wrote:
>anyone know a free apl interpreter for Windows XP even if it has a very very
>small subset of APL, just for teaching in schools? introducing mathematical
>tools of thought. (Not APLSE that executes in a small DOS window).

I don't understand your objection to APLSE. Although it isn't APL 2,
it is a full featured regular APL. It will run full screen if you don't
like the small window. The biggest limitation is the workspace size.
There are some memory games one ought to be able to play to get more of
the interpreter to load in either extended or expanded memory, but I've
never gotten them to work in XP.

For detailed installation instructions for APLSE under XP & other helpful
stuff, check out:

http://www.marthallama.org/apl/

Doug White

llund

2008-02-07, 7:58 am

On Feb 4, 9:28 am, Jane Sullivan <j...@yddraiggoch.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> In message
> <95d2bfb6-7c7b-4a3d-85f7-c771fe568...@v17g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>,
> llund <lorin.l...@gmail.com> writes
>
>
>
> I thought that had already been done.
> Seehttp://www.vector.org.uk/aflat/
>
> How does your version differ from this?
> --
> Jane Sullivan

aflat is really flat. The method used to port it was to rip out
anything
and everything that wouldn't compile easily. I am going for a
complete
port. And adding session and edit windows where you can type in the
alt
sequences directly (without having to rely on Xemacs). I'm using
FLtk
for that so it will port back to *nix.

Jane Sullivan

2008-02-07, 6:59 pm

In message
<20ce876f-d182-413b-a095-501be0b1c297@z17g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
llund <lorin.lund@gmail.com> writes
>On Feb 4, 9:28 am, Jane Sullivan <j...@yddraiggoch.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>aflat is really flat. The method used to port it was to rip out
>anything
>and everything that wouldn't compile easily. I am going for a
>complete
>port. And adding session and edit windows where you can type in the
>alt
>sequences directly (without having to rely on Xemacs). I'm using
>FLtk
>for that so it will port back to *nix.

Are you going to do any of the extensions, such as the sys context and
the s script?
--
Jane Sullivan

llund

2008-02-08, 9:59 pm

On Feb 7, 1:28 pm, Jane Sullivan <j...@yddraiggoch.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> In message
> <20ce876f-d182-413b-a095-501be0b1c...@z17g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
> llund <lorin.l...@gmail.com> writes
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Are you going to do any of the extensions, such as the sys context and
> the s script?
> --
> Jane Sullivan

Everything.

Sponsored Links