On Jan 7, 2:15 pm, "Stephen Taylor <edi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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<StephenTaylorF...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Jan 6, 7:18 pm, Gosi <gos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > I guess that the Unicode APLs will let APL become more usable.
> > It is necessary to have a good connection to the Web as well.
>
> > As it is now I do not know of any easy way of using APL together with
> > the web.
> > I know there are some applications using the Web together withh APLs.
> > It is just not very easy to create such applications.
>
> Good point, and I think an important one. Yes, before Unicode, web-
> page encoding for international sites was annoying enough without
> adding a further mapping to and from APL internal representations.
> Unicode unlocks two doors at once.
>
> At Dyalog07 in Princeton I demonstrated a small bilingual (English and
> Japanese) static website generated (apart from the image files)
> entirely from a Dyalog 12 workspace. The APL code required was tiny
> and (IMHO) lucid.
>
> I've used various 'authoring' tools before: Microsoft FrontPage, PHP +
> text editor, Joomla! CMS -- nothing measures up to the slickness of the
> Dyalog IDE and generating everything out of a single workspace file.
>
> I'm interested in similarly light and slick approaches to dynamic
> sites. I've built one application using ASP.Net, and it seems to me
> there is scope for something considerably lighter and more flexible. I
> think the answer, if there is one, is going to be, as ever, staying
> close to the language and avoiding cunning and elaborate frameworks,
> even ones as admired as Rails. At any rate, I'm expecting an exciting
> year for this work, and would be glad to hear from anyone working
> along related lines.
>
> SJT
I think that it would be great to have some out of the box very simple
applications.
Applications that would do some really elementary stuff with grids.
Other sets of applications that would through up a web interface.
I am not talking about any big database servers.
Something that would demonstrate easy input/output from a screen.
Saving the results in a file.
Yet another to do communication directly between computers.
All of these kinds of applications are available but are doing a bit
too much and are not easy to set up.
I have wanted to see a lot of simplistic books written in the style of
"APL for Dummies"
I think quite a lot of people are simply scared of all the beautiful
advanced applications that are so "easy" to do in APL
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