I have the Soliton APL at home. I even got stickers for the keyboard for the funny symbols. But I'm too lazy to put in all the X keystroke definations. Also, I could not figure all of them out.
-- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer UICI Insurance Center Information Technology This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its' content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Alan Cox > Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 6:02 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Progress on PL/1 for Linux > > > On Maw, 2004-07-13 at 23:42, Jeffrey Savit wrote: > > David is quite right: several brokerages used APL quite > heavily. They > > would hire people out of business school and throw them > into analytics > > departments. When I started working with these guys I was > aghast at the > > idea of using interpreted APL for numerically intensive > applications but > > APL was by far the fastest way for them to express or > revise a numerical > > model. Some of them were strong programmers, others not: in > one of the > > APL hasn't exactly gone away, its just mutated 8) > http://www.aplusdev.org/ > http://wwwbio.leidenuniv.nl/~batenburg/wekapl.html#s9 > > Soliton have APL for Linux including S/390 > http://www.soliton.com/sharp-linux.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO > LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
