Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!merlin.usc.edu!usc.edu!raulmill From: raulmill@usc.edu (Raul) Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl Subject: distributable apl source Message-ID:Date: 18 Aug 89 02:10:26 GMT Sender: news@merlin.usc.edu Organization: Narcoleptic Killer Apes Lines: 38 ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 421 tjp.east.sun.com.tcp... Deferred: Host is unreachable ----- Unsent message follows ----- ... To: jpainter@tjp.East.Sun.COM (John Painter - Sun BOS Hardware) In-Reply-To: jpainter@tjp.East.Sun.COM's message of 9 Aug 89 20:42:15 GMT Subject: PD APL (or copyrighted for public use) I think that you might be able to take part in the International APL project. This is a public domain APL which is being ported to a bunch of different machines. I-APL has a sort of FORTH-like kernel, with the rest of the language built up from there. It is designed for rapid porting, rather than rapid computation. Version 1 was designed around the 16-bit address bus machine architecture, version 2 is designed around the 32-bit address bus architecture. The interpreter was written by a man named Paul Chapman. If you had been at the SIG-APL conference of the ACM (last week, in New York), you could have talked to him (and lots of other people involved in this or similar projects). The best address I have for him is: IAPL Ltd., 2, Blenheim Road, St. Albans, Hertfordshire AL1 4NR UK You would probably want to address the project, rather than Paul Champman, as I don't think he is directly in charge of ports to other machines. Hope this helps Raul Rockwell | INTERNET: raulmill@usc.edu | UUCP: ...uunet!usc!raulmill | 55 mph = 82 nc U.S.SNAIL: 721 E Windsor #4, GLENDALE CA 91205 |