Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!rochester!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!sunybcs!sbcs!kepler1!rjfrey From: rjfrey@kepler1.UUCP (Robert J Frey) Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl Subject: Re: Is APL a dying language? Message-ID: <28@kepler1.UUCP> Date: 3 Dec 88 05:42:29 GMT References: <7082@claris.com> <264@blake.acs.washington.edu> <5557@thorin.cs.unc.edu> <1076@proxftl.UUCP> Reply-To: rjfrey@kepler1.UUCP (Robert J Frey) Organization: Kepler Financial Mgmt, Setauket, NY Lines: 16 In article <1076@proxftl.UUCP> markd@proxftl.UUCP (Mark Davidson) writes: > >...is Pocket APL worth the money?... > As a tool for learning APL, yes, IF you can upgrade it to the full APL*PLUS product later on. Also, aside from the fairly expensive 386 product, STSC's PC-based APL's don't support good things like nested arrays... ============================================================================== |Dr. Robert J. Frey | {icus, spl1, dasys1}!acsm!kepler1!rjfrey | |Kepler Financial Management, Ltd.|------------------------------------------| |100 North Country Rd., Bldg. B | The views expressed are wholly my own and| |Setauket, NY 11766 | and do not reflect those of the Indepen- | |(516) 689-6300 x.16 | dent Republic of Latvia. | ==============================================================================