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APL on life support

aa2e...@lycos.co.uk (AAsk) — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:54:35 UT

I posted this message to the BAA-London newsgroup here:
[link]
(and there is already one response there.)
"
Might you consider this?
"101 reasons why APL is not on life support"
i.e. 101 'snippet' applications/idioms illustrating how APL fit in

January meeting of BAA-London

phil.l...@ntlworld.com (Phil Last) — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:58:43 UT

January meeting of BAA-London
After a very successful November meeting and a Christmas/New Year
break we will be back at:
The Knights Templar
95 Chancery Lane
(corner of Carey Street)
London
WC2A 1DT
[link]
on Friday 29 January 2010
at 14.00 downstairs for 14.30 up.

Re: Newsreaders (Was: Response to 1NT with K7532 Q8743 J5 5)

ted_espaml...@telus.net (Ted Edwards) — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:14:53 UT

Not so. Back in the 70's we wanted to use some of my packages to test
out a new APL system which did not yet have comunications. I sat in one
city and read from function displays (over the phone) to a colleague
(who could touch type APL) sitting at one of our computers in another
city. I didn't even need to speak particularly slowly.

Re: Installing APL+DOS Fonts on Win7, Vista, etc.

donw...@no_spam.com (Don Wiss) — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:51:22 UT

Hi Paul,
I've switched over to my new Win7-64 machine. No DOS applications run!
Instead one must install DOSBox and inside that box you then mount a folder
as the C: drive (or whatever drives you need). For fonts it uses the old
aplfont.com with no problem.
Don <[link]> (e-mail link at home page bottom).

Re: APL+Win []AV Unicode points

phil.hates.s...@amadeus.munged.eclipse.co.uk (phil chastney) — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:05:11 UT

I seem to recall Dyalog's and IBM's encoding of "diamond" and "quad"
being different, but I can't find my notes right now . . . /phil

Re: Newsreaders (Was: Response to 1NT with K7532 Q8743 J5 5)

ibeam2...@gmail.com (Ibeam2000) — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 06:20:29 UT

One of my clients, who until recently used APL heavily in an area
where it was historically strong, is committed to and is migrating to
Java. Corporate mandate, just do it. Watching from a distance, it
looked to me that nine women really can produce one baby in a month.
Well, maybe a few more than nine.

Re: Installing APL+DOS Fonts on Win7, Vista, etc.

donw...@no_spam.com (Don Wiss) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:30:41 UT

Hi Paul,
You know I had downloaded yours sometime in the past. Yes, your fonts are
better. Since I didn't remove the first ones I now have both. Except in
Windows 7 there is no install for fonts. When you copy a font file to that
folder it installs automatically.
Thanks, Don <[link]> (e-mail link at home page bottom).

Re: www.openhere.com and APL

d...@hotmail.com (del) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:53:29 UT

On Dec 31 2009, 9:12 am, Björn Helgason, j-programming
I never said I NEEDED to see APL mentioned, I just wanted to know the
RELATION between the 2

Re: Installing APL+DOS Fonts on Win7, Vista, etc.

asmg...@yahoo.com (Paul Houle) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 10:40:41 UT

You might find this useful: [link]
Some mods I did to DOSAPP.FON to provide APL fonts in higher screen
resolutions.

Installing APL+DOS Fonts on Win7, Vista, etc.

donw...@no_spam.com (Don Wiss) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 02:02:30 UT

I used this page for overall procedure: [link]
Get PLJTools.zip at: [link]
Get DOSAPP.FON out of it
Rename DOSAPP.FON to DOSAPL.FON
Copy to C:\WINDOWS\Fonts folder
In C:\Windows\SYSTEM.INI change "woafont=dosapp.fon" to "woafont=dosapl.fon"

Re: Newsreaders (Was: Response to 1NT with K7532 Q8743 J5 5)

aa2e...@lycos.co.uk (AAsk) — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:29:43 UT

You might have been! Excel is one of the other tools i.e. one that APL
has to compete with.
Incidentally, Excel makes no claim for domain experise as any kind of
prerequisite but caters for mathematicians, accountants etc with the
added advantage that it beats APL hands down when it comes to data
presentation.

Re: Newsreaders (Was: Response to 1NT with K7532 Q8743 J5 5)

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:08:14 UT

On 31 Dec, 17:16, "Stephen Taylor <edi...@vector.org.uk>"
It is really amazing that we do not have a good APL spreadsheet with
Excel like inputs and outputs of results like reports and graphs.

Re: Newsreaders (Was: Response to 1NT with K7532 Q8743 J5 5)

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:16:38 UT

Goodness me. For a moment I thought I was reading about Excel.
Stephen

Re: www.openhere.com and APL

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:12:08 UT

Why would you need to see APL mentioned as the power behind the
website?
In the new J generated html that is in early beta there is not much
said that is is generated by a J engine.
Maybe that is something that should by put into the comments generated
like sometimes there is a mention of Java script in html?

Re: www.openhere.com and APL

r...@rexswain.com (Rex Swain) — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:58:31 UT

See [link]
I believe Fred Waid was involved with this site, but the web pages
never mention any people or location. On the home page it says
"Copyright © 1998-04", so perhaps it's been on autopilot for some
years.