Re: A question to the APL vendors on Windows GUIs ...

On Jan 15, 11:28=A0pm, Gosi <gos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> I would guess he means you make GUI interface to APL functions instead
> of letting the customer type in the names of the APL functions.

Yes, sorry if I was a bit too metaphoric there. I see a the GUI as a
way to feed the APL functions at the core of the system with
arguments. I frequently long for the "open systems" that we used back
in the good old days before both GUI and "Full Screen" character
applications. Paying customers would log on to the APL system and type
things like:

      1 3 5 DAILY, DATED 1 70 TO 12 79
      PUT CURRENCY 'CBUSB,CBGBP'
      TITLE 'COPENHAGEN BUY'
      PLOT ABOVE

Today, this type of design is in the process of being rediscovered,
they call it an "Embedded Domain Specific Notation" and it is one of
the hot new ideas that "agile" people talk about when they discuss
solving the software productivity crisis :-)