Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!water!ljdickey From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl Subject: Re: Is APL a dying language? Message-ID: <1962@water.waterloo.edu> Date: 2 Dec 88 22:27:45 GMT References: <7082@claris.com> <264@blake.acs.washington.edu> <5557@thorin.cs.unc.edu> <1076@proxftl.UUCP> Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 22 In article <1076@proxftl.UUCP> markd@proxftl.UUCP (Mark Davidson) writes: >A question: for someone who is interested in learning about APL, is STSC's >Pocket APL worth the money? Or does someone have a better suggestion? Who >else besides STSC makes APL for the PC-type machines? Yes, Pocket APL is a bargain. When it was produced, it was identical to their full-blown product, with a few exceptions, like full screen editor, and some limit on the number of files one could access at one time. Two other bargains: I-APL See APL Quote Quad, vol 17/3, page 2. Sharp APL for IBM/PC See APL Quote Quad, vol 18/4, page 31. -- L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo. ljdickey@WATDCS.UWaterloo.ca ljdickey@water.BITNET ljdickey@water.UUCP ..!uunet!watmath!water!ljdickey ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu