[Bug-apl] Fwd: Re: 2 questions wrt editing my programs

2014-04-22 Thread Elias Mårtenson
I accidentally sent this to Jürgen only. Here it is for the rest of the list. Regards, Elias -- Forwarded message -- From: Elias Mårtenson loke...@gmail.com Date: 23 Apr 2014 01:13 Subject: Re: [Bug-apl] 2 questions wrt editing my programs To: Jürgen Sauermann

Re: [Bug-apl] 2 questions wrt editing my programs

2014-04-22 Thread Peter Teeson
Thanks Jürgen Elias for your responses. I will explore both approaches. In fact I have downloaded Emacs for OS X from http://emacsformacosx.com/ but not yet installed it. As a long time user of BBEdit, a great text editor for Mac, I've also downloaded the free TextWrangler app. It's also from

[Bug-apl] A call for justification of feature / library / extension proposals (was Re: Tk/Tcl interface)

2014-04-22 Thread David B. Lamkins
Just for the sake of discussion, and not because I specifically object to any of the proposed library bindings: It'd be nice to see some motivation for mapping new libraries into/onto APL. I know that Dyalog APL has all of the features proposed by Elias (and more). I don't, however, assign much

[Bug-apl] apl-cf (Component Files for GNU APL) on Github

2014-04-22 Thread David B. Lamkins
I've pushed apl-cf to Github. The only change (since the last tarball posted to bug-apl) is the addition of a README.md file. https://github.com/TieDyedDevil/apl-cf

Re: [Bug-apl] A call for justification of feature / library / extension proposals (was Re: Tk/Tcl interface)

2014-04-22 Thread Blake McBride
Greetings, Your email sparked many thoughts. Not that my opinion necessarily counts for anything, I think this should be GNU APL's priority list: 1. Fix all known bugs and portability issues as they are discovered. 2. Support all of APL's standard defined features (i.e. trace, stop, etc.)

Re: [Bug-apl] apl-cf (Component Files for GNU APL) on Github

2014-04-22 Thread Blake McBride
Thanks! Really appreciate it! --blake On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 6:53 PM, David B. Lamkins dlamk...@gmail.comwrote: I've pushed apl-cf to Github. The only change (since the last tarball posted to bug-apl) is the addition of a README.md file. https://github.com/TieDyedDevil/apl-cf

Re: [Bug-apl] A call for justification of feature / library / extension proposals (was Re: Tk/Tcl interface)

2014-04-22 Thread Peter Teeson
Blake said: This means creating a quad function to load, execute, and interface with shared libraries (so/dll/etc). It also means standard ways of communicating data back and forth clap clap clap. +1. That's basically the idea of what we did at IPSA. As for the file system it was built