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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
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In article <1076@proxftl.UUCP> markd@proxftl.UUCP (Mark Davidson) writes:
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>...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...

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