>The wonderful Linux Sys Admin O'Reilly book mentions amongst
>many many ohter things that APL is available on Linux (!)
>
>APL stands for A Programming Langugae and was made popular
>as both a teaching and commercial language by IBM and Sharp
>way back in the 70's. It is a very concise and powerful
>multi-dimensional matrix (tensor) processing language,
>and great for whipping up GLP (grungy little programs).
>If you though perl was good for GLP, APL is great :)
>
>Anyone know of APL on Linux?
I cleaned up the Bell Labs APL back in the 80s; it used to run on PDP-11s
and Vaxes, had lots of byte order problems, I made it run on Suns. At
that time, it was only available to Unix licensees. Later on, long
after I stopped tinkering with it, the source was made public. UWaterloo
used to do a lot of stuff with APL and they went on to develop J, APL's
successor. You could try a Google search.
APL's good if you do maths stuff, but not terribly suitable for string
processing.
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