On Jan 18, 11:12=A0am, gavino <gavcom...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Jan 17, 6:18 am, "David Liebtag" <DavidLieb...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
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> > I like it!
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> > David
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> I didn't run it but its obviously some wiseass thing.
Maybe I was being too subtle. You keep posting the same requirements
over and over. The audience here is not getting (much) larger over
time so there is little chance your requirements will be satisfied as
they stand. It's like a perfect storm of obstacles. It has to be BSD
licensed. It has to be APL. It has to be for Linux. Presumably you
need the source in order to extend it, but you show no interest in
paying for it or returning your extensions back to the community.
The knowledge to do what you require is out there. But not the
incentive. It's not rocket science but it is quite specialized.
Specialized knowledge, in any field, is expensive to acquire -- either
in money or time. If you can't spend either yourself, it's going to
be a long wait with no guarantee of success. It is unlikely that a
"lone programmer" will pop up some day with a full-featured APL and
release it to the world gratis.
Perhaps you could modify the base requirements a little. If the
existing requirements would do what you need "perfectly" perhaps there
are minor changes you could make that, though imperfect, would get the
project finished successfully.
For instance, do you need a full-fledged APL implementation or is
there some minimal set of array-like or other operations you could
implement (or find in some non-APL facility) that could work?
For another instance, do you really need source to an APL
interpreter? Or could your project be implemented on top of any of
the existing APL implementations, through runtime licenses if
necessary for distribution? Each APL product has ways of interfacing
between their workspace environment and external facilities so you
wouldn't necessarily need access to APL internals to implement your
project.
Another instance has to do with the many helpful responses you've
received to your earlier posts on this subject. No, they don't match
your requirements "perfectly" but they do suggest different, though
imperfect, ways of moving forward with your project.
It's easy for creative folks to come up with intractable plans.
Bringing plans to fruition sometimes requires modification of the
plans. Like I need to restate this obvious fact...
=2E.mark
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