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Xref: info.physics.utoronto.ca comp.answers:7648 comp.lang.apl:5093 news.answers:30351 Path: grover.jpl.nasa.gov!sam From: sam@kalessin.jpl.nasa.gov (Sam Sirlin) Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl,comp.answers,news.answers Subject: apl language FAQ Followup-To: poster Date: 5 Oct 1994 16:30:48 GMT Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA Lines: 1064 Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <36ukbo$mt7@grover.jpl.nasa.gov> Reply-To: sam@kalessin.jpl.nasa.gov NNTP-Posting-Host: kalessin.jpl.nasa.gov Summary: Answers to common questions regarding the computer language APL. Archive-name: apl-faq Posting-Frequency: monthly Last-modified: October 3, 1994 ------------------------------------------------------------ APL Frequently Asked Questions (well some, anyway) ------------------------------------------------------------ Maintained by S.W. Sirlin Thanks to the many people who have contributed to this list. ------------------------------------------------------------ The questions I'm answering here are: 1. Where can I find APL for machine X? 2. How do I use APL on an X terminal connected to machine Y? 3. Can I compile APL? 4. What tools exist for APL? 5. Can I get an APL font for X? 6. What information exists online about APL? 7. How do I get book Y? 8. What good APL books exist? 9. What user groups exist? 10. What's the latest APL conference? 11. How do I pass APL functions from one APL to another? 12. How do I write APL using only ASCII? ------------------------------------------------------------ New in this version: - new ftp site ------------------------------------------------------------ (1) APL sources APL\11 Freely available interpreter for UNIX (C), thanks to Michael Cain. Currently has some bugs. ftp: waterloo, cshl E-mail: mcain@advtech.uswest.com. APL.68000 (Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, IBM RS/6000, Mac level I/II, add in board for IBM pc's): In North America: Spencer Organization 24 Wampum Road Park ridge, NJ USA 07656 Phone: +1-201-307-9099, Fax: +1-201-307-9404 For the rest of the world: MicroAPL Limited South Bank Technopark 90 London Road, London UK SE1 6LN Phone: +44-71-922-8866 Fax: +44-71-928-1006 E-mail: microapl@microapl.demon.co.uk E-mail: microapl@applelink.apple.com APL90 (Mac, system 7.1): ftp to ftp.emse.fr, look in /pub/apl Jean-Jacques Girardot School Mines St-Etienne, France girardot@cambur.emse.fr APROL (Scheme/J mix): ftp to ariel.cs.trinity.edu and cd into pub. For further information E-mail: jhowland@ariel.cs.trinity.edu CAPL (IBM PC) shareware interpreter Thomas Glen Smith 3154 W. Shady Lane Neenah, WI E-mail: 76207.3343@CompuServe.com ftp: waterloo DEC (VAX APL V4.0): Digital Equipment Corp. Maynard, MASS, USA Dyalog APL Version 7.0 (Unix, APL/W for Windows): Source: Dyadic Systems Ltd. Riverside View, Basing Road, Old Basing, Basingstoke Hampshire RG24 0AL, UK Tel: 011-44-(256) 811125 Fax: (0256) 811130 Email : support@dyadic.com CompuServe: 100136,1473 US Distributor: MIPS Software Development Inc 33493 W. Fourteen Mile Rd Suite 10 Farmington Hills, Mich 48331 Tel: (313) 661-5000, Fax: (313) 661-5826 I-APL (IBM PC, Mac, some other PCs) (free*): In the US (may require lots of patience): Edward M. Cherlin Co-Chairman, I-APL Limited 6611 Linville Drive Weed, California, USA 96094-9763 (916) 938-4684 In the UK: Anthony Camacho Co-Chairman, I-APL Limited 11 Auburn Road Redland Bristol BS6 6LS UK IBM APL2 for PC DOS, OS/2, RISC System/6000, Sun Solaris, and IBM mainframes, plus TryAPL2 for PC DOS free* West Coast: APL Products IBM Santa Teresa, Dept. M46/D12 555 Bailey Avenue San Jose, California 95141, USA Phone: 408-463-APL2 (408-463-2752), FAX: 1-408-463-4488 E-mail: apl2@vnet.ibm.com CompuServe: go IBMAPL2 East Coast: APL Products and Services IBM Corporation, 33VA 078 Neighborhood Road Kingston, NY 12401 USA Phone: 914-385-2538, Fax: 914-385-4372 E-mail: McGrew@VNET.IBM.com From 1-800-IBM-CALL: APL2 for PC DOS is Program Number 5799-PGG, PRPQ RJ0411 APL2 for OS/2, Entry Edition, is part number 89G1556 APL2 for OS/2, Advanced Edition, is part number 89G1697 AIX APL2/6000 is Program Number 5765-012 APL2 for Sun Solaris is Program Number 5648-065 APL2 for CMS/TSO is Program Number 5688-228 APL2 Application Environment for CMS/TSO is Program Number 5688-229 IBM APL2 for the P/370 (Mainframe VM/ESA on a PS/2) Interprocess Systems, Inc. 11660 Alpharetta Hwy., Suite 455 Roswell, GA 30076 USA 404-410-1700, FAX: 404-410-1773 E-mail: 70373.2676@compuserve.com J & Sharp APL/PC/386 (J is free*, PC version of Sharp APL is free*, APLI386 and windows version are cheap): Iverson Software Inc. 33 Major Street Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2K9 Voice: 416-925-6096 Fax: 416-488-7559 Now distributed through: Strand Software Systems 2 Adelaide Street West, Suite 203 Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5H 1L6 Tel (416) 369-1630 Fax (416) 369-9590 Email: anne.faust@rose.com Manugistics (formerly STSC): APL*PLUS/PC, APL*PLUS II, APL*PLUS III, (DOS, Windows, NT, Unix, VMS), Statgraphics Manugistics Inc. 2115 East Jefferson St. Rockville, Maryland, USA 20852 Phone: 800-592-0050, 301-984-5000, 301-984-5412, 301-984-5123 Fax: 301-984-5094 e-mail: support: answer@manu.com sales: aplsales@manu.com international: intl@manu.com Sharp APL (MVS, AIX, SunOS; Viewpoint APL 4GL): Soliton Associates Limited (Formerly I. P. Sharp Associates) 44 Victoria St, Suite 2100 Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5C 1Y2 Phone: (416) 364-9355 Fax: (416) 364-6159 E-mail: sales@Soliton.COM Soliton Associates, Inc. 1100 University Ave., Suite 111 Rochester, NY 14607 USA Phone: (716) 256-6466 Fax: (716) 256-6469 Soliton Associates Limited Groot Blankenberg 53 1082 AC Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel: +31 20 646 4475, Fax: +31 20 644 1206 Email: ljh@soliton.com Q'Nial: Nial Systems Ltd Queen's University and Nial Systems 155 Queen Street, Ninth Floor Ottawa, Ontario (613) 234-4188) ------------------------------------------------------------ (2) Terminal Emulation EXTRA! Extended for DOS or EXTRA! for Windows. Includes APL2 character set in both. DOS product works under Windows. Attachmate Corporation 13231 S.E. 36th Street Bellevue, Washington 98006 USA tel. (800) 426-6283 (206) 644-4010 in Washington State IBM Terminal Emulators with APL Support: AIX: AIX X-Windows 3270 Emulator/6000 (X3270) Program Number 5765-011 DOS/Windows: PC/3270 Version 3, Version 4 9/30 OS2 Extended Services Communications Manager: Includes the CMAPL Application Aid. Requires APAR fixes after the Graphics Engine CSD is installed. OS2 Communications Manager/2 (CM/2): APL Support is available in Version 1.11 IRMA (PC) Digital Communications Associates, Inc. 1000 Alderman Drive Alpharetta, Georgia 30201-4199 USA tel. (404) 442-4000 RUMBA (for 3270, apl and graphics) Wall Data 17769 NE 78th Place Redmond WA 98052-4992 206-883-4777 TN3270 (Macintosh) Not public domain, but may be freely distributed. Works with TCP/IP Anonymous FTP from BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (128.148.128.40): Distribution files are in the highest level directory. Begin by retrieving the file $README.FIRST which describes the other files. Anonymous FTP from FTP.NCSA.UIUC.EDU (128.174.20.50): Distribution files are contained in the directory NCSA_Telnet/tn3270. Same files as above above for BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU. BITNET distribution from LISTSERV@BROWNVM: Send LISTSERV the command GET TN3270 PACKAGE. GET LOCAL FILELIST for a complete list of available files. Mail order from Brown for $20 (check payable to Brown University): TN3270 Distribution Brown University Computer Store P.O. Box 1885 Providence, Rhode Island 02912 USA Info -- the NCSA Telnet Digest subscription: request@ncsa.uiuc.edu. YTERM For PC, supports IBM, VAX, TCP/IP with APL/APL2 chars. Yale University Computing & Information Systems Software Distribution 175 Whitney Avenue New Haven CT 06520 Tel: (203) 432-6600 Fax: (203)-432-6165 LISTSERV@YALEVM Z-Stem, a series of VT (e.g. VT240) emulators, for MSDOS PC/VAX-11 KEA Systems 3738 North Fraser Way, Unit 101 Burnaby, British Columbia Canada, V5J 5G1 (604) 431-0727 ------------------------------------------------------------ (3) Compilers APL to C conversion and compiler - I've heard this is out of business these days. Sofremi-AGL 6. rue Paul Bert 92800 Puteaux - France (1) 47.72.25.13 + Telex: 612 651 F Manugistics compiler for IBM 370 APL*PLUS, documented in APL '85 see Manugistics listing above, or E-mail: kate@manu.com VSAPL to C conversion and compiler Dr. Wai-Mee Ching Computer Science Department T. J. Watson Research Center P.O. Box 704 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 Phone: 914-784-7748 E-mail: ching@watson.ibm.com Experimental: Tim Budd's latest APLc: anonymous login to cs.orst.edu, cd pub/budd and grab the files apl.* or send a mail message through the internet to ``oopintro@cs.orst.edu'' with the single word apl on the subject line. My current modification (3.6) of Budd's older aplc: anonymous ftp to: 128.149.29.4 csi.jpl.nasa.gov or send mail to sam@kalessin.jpl.nasa.gov asking for it ------------------------------------------------------------ (4) Other tools for APL IEDIT (APL2 editor), AFM file system, APL2 tools. Interprocess Systems, Inc. 11660 Alpharetta Hwy, Suite 455 Roswell GA 30076 USA 404-410-1700, Fax: 404-410-1773 E-mail: 70373.2676@compuserve.com Insight Systems - SQAPL, an interface to SQL databases via ODBC or SequeLink, a spreadsheet manager, and a number of other APL tools available for many APL systems. Insight Systems ApS Nordre Strandvej 119A DK-3150 Hellebaek Denmark Phone: +45 42 10 70 22 FAX: +45 42 10 75 74 insight@inet.uni-c.dk SQL Auxiliary Processor for Dyalog APL for Windows (DDE) Lingo Allegro USA, Inc. 6749 S.Westnedge Ave, Suite K-268 Phone: +1 312 203 4926 Fax: +1 708 459 8501 Internet: 71303.3224@CompuServe.com Computer Aided Instruction, for PC or mainframe IBM. Also a newsletter. Zark Incorporated 23 Ketchbrook Lane Ellington CT 06029 USA ------------------------------------------------------------ (5) APL fonts Besides commercial products that come with the interpreters, there are: 1. fonts for TeX, laTeX, the X windows system, and truetype (APL2) are available on waterloo. 2. Truetype fonts for windows are available from ISI and Manugistics. 3. Truetype fonts Dyalog APL and Vector APL are available gratis, if you send a blank, formatted disk: Adrian Smith Brook House, Gilling East, YORK England -- U.K. (See his article in the April 1993 issue of VECTOR journal) ------------------------------------------------------------ (6) Online information, free* APLs & WS 1. APL\BBS Sysop Dick Holt HRH Systems 3802 N. Richmond St. Arlington VA 22207 (703) 528-7617, 1200-14400b (N-8-1), 24 hrs. Free email and many free files. $US24/year subscription for full service. Comp.lang.apl echo. Files for APL*PLUS, IBM APL2/TryAPL2, ISI, Sharp, Dyalog, and I-APL. On-screen APL lessons, cryptography, APL in French, APL Conference Software, J, and much more. Send $US2 for 70k on-disk catalog of all BBS\APL files. 2. Anonymous ftp cshl.org, in pub/bill/apl APL\11 modified for W. Chang's APL! keywords, fep, some comp.lang.apl discussions. csi.jpl.nasa.gov (128.149.29.4) The site for this FAQ, my version of the apl compiler (3.6), some scripts for J, LaTeX J language summary, J faq. See the directory pub/apl exaia.wu-wien.ac.at (137.208.15.200) some J sources, particularly for HP ftp.cs.ualberta.ca Introduction to J using statistics, pub/smillie/intj.* gatekeeper.dec.com The site of Committee Draft 1 of the APL ANSI/ISO standard (1/93) in: pub/plan/apl/cover.ps (a cover letter) pub/plan/apl/aplcd1.ps (the main document) nova.cc.purdue.edu, cs.orst.edu some NEXT/J material: j.pkg.tar, Visage.pkg.tar archive.uwaterloo.ca or watserv1.waterloo.edu (watserv1.uwaterloo.ca), L.J. Dickey's collection. Current J distribution for many machines (and J source, including LinkJ), APL\11, CAPL, IAPL, TryAPL, RatAPL, APL fonts, TeX macros and fonts, the toronto toolkit, some other WS, archives of comp.lang.apl, the APL standard, and this FAQ. These are in directories starting from directory languages/apl wuvieai.wu-wien.ac.at (137.208.15.20) This mirror of the APL Archives on watserv1 may be more convenient for users in Europe. Start in the directory /pub/lang/apl 3. Mail server LISTSERV@UNB.CA, in the list APL-L, archives of comp.lang.apl ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com - mail access to waterloo, gatekeeper 4. Bitnet mail server BITFTP@PUCC.BITNET - access to waterloo Access to the APL-L on bitnet from the internet can be done via mail: To: listserv%UNBVM1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu Subject: SUBSCRIBE APL-L SUBSCRIBE APL-L List of all APL lists known to LISTSERV@SEARN on 2 May 1994 15:37 APL-ERS APL-ERS@IRLEARN.BITNET UCD APL Interest Group "virtually extinct" APL-L APL-L@UNBVM1.BITNET APL Language Discussion APLEDU-L APLEDU-L@UNBVM1.BITNET APL in Education plus of course the Potomac_sigAPL_announce@acm.org 5. Inquiries about the proposed ISO standard should be addressed to the mailing-list at apl-stds@watmath.UWaterloo.CA (SC22 WG3 attendees) ------------------------------------------------------------ (7) Sources of Publications/Books APL News Edward M. Cherlin, Editor (address above) APL Quote Quad Association for Computing Machinery (address below) EducAPL 1120 Ave du Parc Quebec PQ CANADA G1S2W7 Renaissance Data Systems PO Box 20023 Park West Finance Station NY, NY USA 10025-1510 (212) 864-3078 (SIGAPL book sale) Robert G. Brown 116 Bentley Avenue Old Bridge, New Jersey, USA 08857-1336 Robert_Brown@MTS.cc.Wayne.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ (8) References - books mentioned on the net or that someone has recomended, not all of which are available 1. Brown et. al. "APL2 at a Glance," Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-038670-7. 2. T. Budd, "An APL Compiler," Springer-Verlag. 3. Maurice Dalois, "Introduction to APL*PLUS PC," available from EducAPL, US$30, US$10 for overseas shipping. 4. J. Ever and C. Fair, "Guidelines for APL Systems," DPD 22 IBM 037301, March 1976. 5. Gilman and Rose, "APL - An Interactive Approach," Wiley, ISBN 220-471-30022-5. 6. Ulf Grenander, "Mathematical Experiments on the Computer," Academic Press, 1982, ISBN 0-12-301750-5. 7. Kent Haralson, Useful APL Defined Functions, IBM Technical Report, TR 00.2409, Feb. 8 1973. 8. Timothy Holls, "APL Programming Guide," IBM G320-6103, 1978, and G320-6735, 1981, (out of print?). 9. S. Kamin, "Programming Languages: An Interpreter-Based Approach," contains (among other things) toy implementations of Lisp, APL, Scheme, SASL, CLU, Smalltalk, and Prolog, Addison-Wesley, 1990, ISBN 0-201-06824-9. 10. Jon McGrew, "An Introduction to APL2," IBM (SH20-9229). 11. IBM, "APL2 Programming: Language Reference" (SH20-9227 or SH21-1061?). 12. Peelle, APL an Introduction, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, ISBN 0-03-004953-9. 13. Reiter & Jones, APL with a Mathematical Accent, Brooks/Cole ISBN 0-534-12864-5, (now being distributed by Chapman & Hall). 14. Adrian Smith, "APL, A Design Handbook for Commercial Systems," Wiley series in information processing, Wiley & Sons, 1982, ISBN 0-471-10092-7. 15. Jerry R. Turner, "APL IS EASY!," Manugistics, 1993. 16. "The APL Handbook of Techniques," IBM publication number S320-5996, April 1978. 17. "SHARP APL Reference Manual," 2nd ed., Soliton Associates Limited PC Version: Iverson Software, 1993. 18. Jim Weigang, "APL notes," available from J. Weigang (with software) 68 Plateau circle West Springfield MA01089, USA price: US$29 + US$8 for overseas shipping. ------------------------------------------------------------ (9) User groups 1. ACM/SIGAPL Association for Computing Machinery / Special Interest Group on APL, international membership. Quarterly journal Quote Quad. Chapter groups around the country. Association for Computing Machinery 1515 Broadway New York, NY 10036 Tel: (212) 626-0500 E-mail acmhelp@acm.org 2. APLBUG APL Bay Area Users Group, Northern California ACM SIGAPL Meets monthly, regular newsletter, $20/yr. Secretary/Treasurer: Lew Robinson 1100 Gough Street, Apt. 14A San Francisco, CA 95109 Tel. 415-928-2058 Prodigy: frgp21a Newsletter editor (APL BUG)/Program chair: George Mendonsa E-mail: ghwr19a@prodigy.com cschulz@lmsc.lockheed.com (Charles Schulz) jonesca@sjevm5.vnet.ibm.com (Curtis A. Jones) 3. Belgian APL CAM Users Society (BACUS) APL CAM Journal (4 issues / year in French, Dutch, English) and other publications. fee: 500 Belgian F c/o Joseph De Kerf Rooienberg 72 B2570 Duffel BELGIUM tel.: 32-15-31 47 24 4. BAA British APL Association, a specialist group of the British Computer Society, international membership. Quarterly journal VECTOR maintains a comprehensive vendor and product list. NOTE: send official correspondence to the Secretary, newsletter correspondence to the journal editor. Chairman: David Eastwood MicroAPL Limited South Bank Technopark 90 London Road London SE1 6LN, UK Tel: +44 71 922 8866 E-mail: microapl@applelink.apple.com Secretary: Duncan Pearson 143 Hull Road York, YO1 3JX, UK Tel: +44 904 603510 E-mail: 100265.1564@compuserve.com Treasurer: Nicholas Small 8 Cardigan Road London E3 5HU, UK Tel: +44 81 980 7870 Journal editor (Vector): Anthony Camacho 11 Auburn Road, Redland Bristol BS6 6LS, UK Tel: +44 272 730036 Email: acamacho@cix.compulink.co.uk 5. Chicago APL SIG Larry Mysz Chicago APL SIG 836 Highland Drive Chicago Heights IL 60411, USA E-mail: 73040.3032@compuserve.com 6. Connecticut APL group Bob Pomeroy Mass Mutual Life 1295 State Street Mail Drop F465 Springfield MA 01111 USA Tel: +1 413 788 8411 x2838 7. CPCUG APL SIG Capital PC User Group APL Special Interest Group Free monthly meetings 51 Monroe Street, Plaza East Two Rockville, Maryland 20850-2421 Tel: (301) 762-9372 FAX: (301) 762-9375 CPCUG MIX (Member Information Exchange BBS): (301) 738-9060 8. Denmark: APL Special Interest Group of the Danish Data Association (DDA) (?) Per Gjerlof E-mail: d03per@vm2.uni-c.dk 9. Dutch APL User Group secr. B. Smoor Dorpstraat 50 4128BZ Lexmond The Netherlands 10. Association Francophone pour la promotion du langage APL Les Nouvelles d'APL (journal 4/year) and other publications in French. fee: 300 French F 160-162 rue Cardinet F75017 Paris FRANCE tel.: 33-1-44 85 96 07 President: Mr. Eric Lescasse E-mail: 70731.3233@compuserve.com 11. APL-Club Germany c/o Dieter Lattermann Rheinstrasse 23 D-69190 Walldorf, GERMANY Tel: +49 6227 2003 12. Japan APL Association 23-2-302 Hiromichi Adachi-ku, Tokyo 120, Japan 13. APL Werkgroep Nederland(?) OASIS Lekstraat, 4 NL3433 ZB Niewegein The NETHERLANDS Tel: +31 3402 66336 Fax: +31 3402 65844 Also contact Eke Van Batenburg E-mail: sbqbeb@rulsfb.leidenuniv.nl 14. APL Club Oesterreich Obere Donaustrasse 95 A-1020 Wein, AUSTRIA 15. Rome/Italy ACM SIGAPL Casella Postale 14343 00100 - Roma Trullo, ITALY Chair:Mario Sacco E-mail: marsac@vnet.ibm.com Additional contact: David Lanari Universita di Perugia Piaza dell'Universita 2 Via G. Verga 30 I06100 Perugia, ITALY E-mail: david@ipguniv.bitnet 16. Melbourne APL Users Group Contacts: Harvey Davies CSIRO Div Atm Res Private Bag No. 1 Mordialloc, Victoria 3195, Australia Phone: +61 3 586 7574 E-mail: hld@dar.csiro.au Moshe Sniedovich E-mail: moshe@mundoe.maths.mu.oz.au 17. NY/SIGAPL The New York City local chapter of ACM SIGAPL Monthly meetings (ex July/August), newsletter "BIG APL", "APL as a Tool of Thought" miniconferences (November). Dues $35, $25 for ACM and for ACM SIGAPL members, $10 for students. Chairman: Nestor Nelson (1993) Tel.: 212/815-7989, 718/359-3925 PO Box 138 New York, New York 10815-0002 USA E-mail: mkent@acm.org (Mike Kent) Past-chair: Jacob Brickman Tel: +1 781 773 4093 E-mail: jbrick@ACM.org 18. Potomac ACM SIGAPL Chapter Free monthly meetings Dues: $25, $20 for ACM/ACMSIGAPL members, $10 for students c/o CPCUG APL SIG 51 Monroe Street, Plaza East Two Rockville, Maryland 20850-2421 Tel: (301) 762-9372 FAX: (301) 762-9375 E-mail: Potomac_sigAPL_Chapter@acm.org Finger: PotAPL@acm.org (for information, directions) MAILSERV@acm.org; subscribe potomac_sigapl_announce Directions and Calendar also available as Bulletins D and E on the BBS\APL at 703-528-7617, 1200-14400b, 24 hrs 19. Rochester, NY APL group Gary Dennis Soliton Associates 1100 University Ave, Rochester, NY 14607, USA E-mail: gsd@ipsalab.tor.soliton.com 20. South East APL Users' Group (SEAPL) Doc Manges SEAPL Newsletter Editor 991 Creekdale Drive Clarkston GA 30021, USA Other contacts: Gordon and Stella Chamberlain Interprocess Systems, Inc. 11660 Alpharetta Hwy, Suite 455 Roswell GA 30076, USA Tel: +1 404 410 1700, Fax: +1 404 410 1773 E-mail: 70373.2676@compuserv.com 21. SOCAL-SIGAPL Southern California APL user's group. Meets monthly, usually second Wednesday at Los Angeles City College. Regular newsletter, $15/year. Secretary-Treasurer: George D. Smith 6644 Glade Ave. #320 Canoga Park, CA 91303 phone: (818) 716-6271 e-mail: astasney@alumni.caltech.edu (Arthur J. Stasney, editor) 22. SovAPL Alexander O. Skomorokhov P.O. Box 5061 Obninsk - 5 Kaluga Region RUSSIA E-mail: askom@apl2.obninsk.su Dr Alexander Skomorokhov Obninsk Institut of Nuclear Power/IATE Studgorod 1 Obninsk Kaluga Region 249020 RUSSIA Tel: +7 084439 31463 Fax: +7 095 2552225 E-mail: askom@apl2.obninsk.su 23. Suomen APL-yhdistys ry (Finn APL Association) about 4 informal newsletters/year, mainly in Finnish, one English issue/year. Membership fees,per year 100 Fmk (about 20 $) Address: Box 1005, 00101 Helsinki, Finland Chair: Eero Korpelainen (1992) University of Joensuu, Department of Statistics, Box 111, 80101 Joensuu, Finland Telefax: 358-73-1513290 E-mail: ek@joyl.finujo.fi 24. SWAPL -- SouthWest APL Users' Group Membership fees, per year USA ----- $12 Non-USA postal supplement --------- $6 c/o Stuart Yarus (newsletter editor) P.O. Box 210367 Bedford, TX 76095 U.S.A. (817) 656 5896; (817) 577 0165 Compuserve: 73700,2545 Internet: 73700.2545@compuserve.com 25. SwedAPL c/o Gian Medri Box 16181 S-103 24 Stockholm SWEDEN Tel: +46 8 96 09 47 26. Swiss APL User(s) Group Hans Steffen Swiss APL User Group c/o Federal Statistical Office CH3003 Berne SWITZERLAND Fax: +41 31 382 27 95 See also: Dr. Hanspeter Bieri Institut fur Informatik Universitat Berne Langgasstrasse 51 CH3012 Bern SWITZERLAND Tel: +41 31 65 86 81 Fax: +41 31 65 39 65 E-mail:bieri@iam.unibe.ch E-mail: si@ifi.unizh.ch 27. Sydney APL Users Group Newsletter (with contributions from Melbourne group): "Epsilon" Acting President and Treasurer: Nick Laletin, Jr. PO Box 1511 Macquarie Centre, North Ryde 2113 Australia Tel: +61 02 427 1605 Fax: (02) 257 6670 Secretary: Erik Nielson Phone: +61 2 257 5742 28. Toronto ACM APL SIG Meets the 4th monday of September through May, excluding December, Monthly newsletter Gimme Arrays! Attendance is free and membership is CAD 25 per year, CAD 5 for full time students. Chair: Cameron Linton 416-364-5361 Secretary: Marc Griffiths 416-532-0843 Treasurer: Eric Granz 416-980-7149 P.O. Box 384 Adelaid Street Post Office Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5C 2J5 29. APL White Pages A collection of names and e-mail adressess of those interested in APL. Currently 160 listings. To be listed send e-mail to mkent@acm.org or mkent@iat.holonet.net with subject line "APL White Pages", and content one or more lines of the form real name = userid@subdomain.domain You will then get on the list, and be mailed the list itself. Multiple listings for an individual are allowed. ------------------------------------------------------------ (10) Conferences APL IN BUSINESS 18-22 July 1994 EUROPEAN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, SWANSEA Mr J. Haydn Williams, Conference Administrator European Business Management School, University College, Singleton Park SWANSEA SA2 8PP, Wales, UK. Tel: 0792-295555 Fax: 0792-295626 Email: EBMS.APL@UK.AC.SWANSEA APL94: APL - the language and its applications 11-15 September 1994 Antwerp, Belgium Organized by The Belgian APL-CAM Users Society (BACUS) and the Technological Institute of the Royal Flemish Society of Engineers (TI-K VIV) APL94 Conference Office and Conference Chairman Joseph De Kerf Desguinlei 214 B-2018 Antwerp - Belgium phone: (32) 3-216 09 96 fax: (32) 3-216 06 89 e-mail: tiapl94@autoctrl.rug.ac.be Program Chairman: Alain Delmotte Avenue du Marathon, 6 B1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium phone : (32) 10-45 11 92 fax : (32) 10-45 23 26 e-mail: apl94pgm@ires.ucl.ac.be The APL95 Software Exchange: SIGAPL invites you to send new and useful software to the APL95 Software Exchange. New GUI software is especially welcome. Software from prior APL conferences is also welcome if it has been significantly improved or updated. APL95 Conference Software will be available in three ways: - The Conference Package: software received by April 5, 1995 will be available for purchase at APL95 in San Antonio. - The APL95 Supplement: software received between April 5 1995 and June 8 1995 will be mailed at no charge to all who purchase the Conference Package at APL95. - The Conference Package, plus the APL95 Supplement, will be available by about October 1995 from SIGAPL, the BBS\APL, and the Waterloo archive. Send software for the APL95 Software Exchange on a 3.5" disk to: Dick Holt, 3802 N. Richmond St. Arlington VA 22207 USA Software in APL, J, and any related language is invited. English is preferred, and other languages are also welcome. Please include an ASCII file that briefly describes what the software does, and what other software/hardware is needed to use it. Please include permission to distribute any copyright software. APL95, "APL Does It Today" SIGAPL's annual international conference for 1995 will take place between June 4 and June 8 in San Antonio, Texas. The technical theme of the conference is meant to emphasize practical use of APL. CONTACT INFORMATION: Two Internet distribution lists have been set up for APL95. "APL95_info@ACM.org" will be used for broadcasting information to the subscribers. To subscribe, just send a one-line message to "mailserv@ACM.org"; that single line should read "subscribe APL95_info your_e-mail_address". The other list is "APL95_conf@ACM.org", to be used for initiating conversations with APL95 Committee members. Someone will reply to your message as soon as possible. 9th quasi-annual "APL as a Tool of Thought" seminar NY/SIGAPL Saturday, October 8, 1994 8:30-5:00 Dalton School 108 E. 89th St. New York, NY. Prices: pre-registered $60; members of NY/ACM, SIGAPL $50; educators $40; students $20. Walk-ins $70 (except students $20). For more info, contact David Gilmartin at (212) 371-3452. Register by fax (914) 378-2910 -- Attn Jim Boyd: register by 10/3. ------------------------------------------------------------ (11) Migration of applications Different APL vendors store workspaces in completely different formats. This has greatly reduced sharing of functions among users, and made it difficult for users to migrate between vendors and even between machines. Here there are two main options - 1. Use the Workspace Interchange Standard (WSIS). This has been partially implemented by various vendors. For example IBM uses )in and )out I believe, whereas Manugistics (STSC) uses an SLT workspace to do the reading/writing. Unfortunately everyone can't read the other's version of WSIS yet. Here are some concrete instructions, courtesy of Eke van Batenburg, : You only port , no GUI, no file I/O, no graphics, no locked objects. The following recipees use (arbitrary choosen) filename TRANSW.ATF on floppy as intermediate. "<>" means "next line". 1 Macintosh APL68000 export to floppy: []MOUNT'Untitled' <> )OUT 0 TRANSWS In finder, change file name to "TRANSWS.ATF" 2 Macintosh APL68000 import from floppy: In finder, change file name to "TRANSWS" (without ".ATF" extension!!!) []MOUNT'Untitled' <> )IN 0 TRANSWS Problems: "INVALID FILE" can mean "SYMBOL TABLE FULL" (check ")SYMBOLS" and increase them) to 1000) or comment lines in file (remove all lines beginning with "*" using any editor and try again). 3 Atari APL68000 export to floppy: []MOUNT 'A:' <> )OUT 0 TRANSWS 4 Atari APL68000 import from floppy []MOUNT 'A:' <> )IN 0 TRANSWS Problems: same as in point 2. 5 IBM APL2/PC export to floppy: )HOST A: <> )OUT TRANSWS 6 IBM APL2/PC import from floppy: )HOST A: <> )IN TRANSWS Problems: none experienced upto now 7 IBM mainframe export to floppy: start APL with "APL2 CASE(2)" (necessary for underscored conversion) )CLEAR <> )COPY workspacetobeported (NOT LOAD!!!!) )OUT TRANSWS <> )CLEAR <> )IN TRANSWS <> )OUT TRANSWS (yes, 2x seems to work, 1x sometimes gives gibberish, I don't know why) Download ....APLTF.TRANSWS to floppy, rename to TRANSWS.ATF Problems: if you download with Kermit: set TEXTMODE OFF and set file TYPE BINARY 8 IBM mainframe import from floppy I have no experience with this, but I suppose: Upload TRANSWS.ATF to file ...APLTF.TRANSWS )IN TRANSWS 9 Manugistics APLW export to floppy: ]OUT A:TRANSWS.ATF 10 Manugistics APLW import from floppy: ]IN A:TRANSWS.ATF Problems: Different from IBM or APL68000 or "extended standard" are: "A B C[2]" is B, partioned enclose, squeezed quad, monadic ",[1.5]", take with axis and scalar functions with axis. 11 Dyalog APL: im/export functions have since several years a bug that thinks that your recordsize is wrong. If you manage to correct only this, it seems to work find. 12 Contribution of others to TRYAPL(?), IPSharp APL, ISIAPL etc. 2. Write the functions/data out to ASCII files using some sort of transliteration scheme (see 11). This has the advantage over (1) that the files are human-readable and editable. Both schemes suffer from the basic incompatibility between APL vendors. This comes from extensions to standard ISO APL in several areas: 1. Different built in functions - the quad functions. This includes file IO, graphics etc. Also the (mostly obsolete) ibeam functions. 2. Generalized arrays - boxes versus nests. A major fight in the community for at least the last 10 years. Unresolved. 3. User defined operators - not all implementations allow this. 4. Multivalent functions - not all implementations allow this. Each instance of the above requires someone who knows both implementations to rewrite the code. Hence only ISO APL is easily portable. ------------------------------------------------------------ (12) Writing APL in ASCII Almost all vendors have provided ways to enter APL from non-APL terminals. They took forms such as @BOX for example. For some reason however, they all used different symbol sets and different transliterations. Hence all are incompatible. Various users, seeing the advantage of this approach versus the WSIS have tried their hands. I there are several separate issues: writing an APL character, writing APL data, writing APL functions, and writing out a whole workspace. Approaches for character : 1. My own approach - see symbols3v1.txt on csi. Example: s .is + / .ro , a 2. William Chang (wchang@phage.cshl.org) has proposed a J-ish vertion called APL! Example: s <- +/ ? , a 3. Jim Weigang (jimw@math.umass.edu) has proposed a bit more verbose version. Example: s {<-} +/ {rho} , a Approaches for objects: 1. John Mitloehner (mitloehn@uxq.wu-wien.ac.at) has proposed a PP scheme for this that includes data and functions. See his article at APL92. Code for various APLs is available at waterloo. Example: @begin function NUB R@is NUB X R@is ((X@iota X)=@iota @rho X)/X @end function Code is also available for incorporation of APL into latex documents. 2. Jim Weigang proposes the more familiar "Del editor" output format. Sample code for this translator is available in this format. ------------------------------------------------------------ *free usually means you can get it for free from the net, or pay small media/documentation charges to get it from the vendor. ------------------------------------------------------------ Changes/Additions: sam@kalessin.jpl.nasa.gov ------------------------------------------------------------ -- Sam Sirlin Jet Propulsion Laboratory sam@kalessin.jpl.nasa.gov