17 Nov
2004
17 Nov
'04
9:49 a.m.
At 12:34 PM 11/17/04 -0500, you wrote:
Shucks. I can go in my living room, plug in the keyboard that already has the APL
characters on it and turn on my IBM PC, and put in the APL disk and be using APL in about
2 minutes.
Joe
>>>> "Joe" == Joe R <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com> writes:
Joe> "Iverson passed away on Oct. 19 following a stroke while he was
Joe> working on his computer. He was 83. " He must have been using a
Joe> Windows PC! He should have stuck with APL.
Joe> APL was my first computer language as well. I learned it form
Joe> Iverson's book A Programming Language and finally got to try it
Joe> out on an IBM 1130. I'll go for YEARs and not use APL and
Joe> finally getting rid of all my APL books and stuff but I always
Joe> find myself coming back to APL.
There's a pretty good APL implementation that runs on Linux and
Solaris, among others, called OpenAPL. It includes a tweaked xterm
that handles the APL characters directly.