Re: [9fans] APL for Plan 9?

2018-09-10 Thread Rudolf Sykora
On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 at 17:53, Xiao-Yong Jin wrote: > I would love to know what you did for OpenBSD. > I am stuck with the linux version on FreeBSD for now. > Do all the test pass on OpenBSD? Do all the 15!: actually work? > For Plan 9, we can just get rid of libedit and make jconsole a lot

Re: [9fans] APL for Plan 9?

2018-09-07 Thread Xiao-Yong Jin
> On Sep 7, 2018, at 1:35 AM, Rudolf Sykora wrote: > > But. There are several parts of the system: jlibrary, jconsole, jqt. > The first two I finally managed to compile on OpenBSD, I failed with > jqt (which is a very nice qt-based environment, btw.) And nobody will > use the latter on Plan9.

Re: [9fans] APL for Plan 9?

2018-09-07 Thread Bakul Shah
On Fri, 07 Sep 2018 08:35:23 +0200 Rudolf Sykora wrote: > I also note that there now exists a GPL'd version of the K language, > Kona. That one was straightforward to build on OpenBSD. Kona uses mmap so not so easy to port. If you are used to normal C style, kona code style will be very hard to

Re: [9fans] APL for Plan 9?

2018-09-07 Thread Rudolf Sykora
Hello, On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 at 19:36, Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote: > > There's a Plan 9 port of J 3.02 in /n/sources/contrib/miller/j/8.j > > > > 386 executable only, as I don't have permission to share source, but I can > > compile for other $objtypes on request. > > I recall the

Re: [9fans] APL for Plan 9?

2018-09-06 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
Ethan Gardener writes: > Is there an implementation of APL or a related language for Plan 9? For pure APL, I don't think so. Long ago I ran the Thompson APL interpreter on our Ultrix VAX. It was built from source, but I forget which tape it came from. It would have been one of V7 or 4.2BSD,

Re: [9fans] APL for Plan 9?

2018-09-06 Thread Richard Miller
On 2009-07-10 I announced this in 9fans: > There's a Plan 9 port of J 3.02 in /n/sources/contrib/miller/j/8.j > > 386 executable only, as I don't have permission to share source, but I can > compile for other $objtypes on request. I recall the port being very simple to do, so it would probably

Re: [9fans] APL for Plan 9?

2018-09-06 Thread Greg Lewin
and there is J, from the same stable as APL and its natural successor but using only ascii characters: http://www.jsoftware.com/ - sources under GPL v3 dual licence On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 at 14:42, Ethan Gardener wrote: > > Is there an implementation of APL or a related language for Plan 9? > > --

Re: [9fans] APL for Plan 9?

2018-09-06 Thread Bakul Shah
On Sep 6, 2018, at 6:41 AM, Ethan Gardener wrote: > > Is there an implementation of APL or a related language for Plan 9? http://t3x.org/klong/ Though it is not as nice as k or kona. Rob Pike’s ivy may compile on plan9, it being implemented in go.

Re: [9fans] APL for Plan 9?

2018-09-06 Thread Dave Lukes
I know nothing of any pure APL for p9 or related systems, but theres A+: http://www.aplusdev.org/ which is GPLed, so could, theoretically, be ported. On Sep 06, 2018, at 02:43 PM, Ethan Gardener wrote: Is there an implementation of APL or a related language for Plan 9? -- The lyf so short,

[9fans] APL for Plan 9?

2018-09-06 Thread Ethan Gardener
Is there an implementation of APL or a related language for Plan 9? -- The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. -- Chaucer