Re: A+ question

On Feb 16, 1:42 am, Bob Cain <arc...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> aleph0 wrote:
> >http://www.microapl.co.uk/apl/buyonline/buyaplx.html
> > Check out the above page for a personal licence for Linux APLX V1.1 or
> > a Commercial Windows licence where runtimes are free !
>
> >http://www.dyalog.com/prices.htm
> > "Personal" copy for Windows is cheap.
> > Commercial Windows licence is fairly expensive and Windows runtimes
> > are not free.
>
> Unless you need "complex" as a primitive data type. In that case it
seems that
> IBM (too expensive) is the only game in town and likely to remain that
way given
> the long history of APL.
>
> I'd love to use APL for digital signal processing development but...
> Nonetheless, hope springs eternal.  :-)
>
J does sup****t complex data types.  It
also sup****ts extended integer (as much
precision as the number requires)
and 'rational'  (a ratio of 2 extended
integers)

And it's licensing terms are more liberal than GPL.  That is they
don't
require a licensing fee and they don't subject the resultant work to
any
licensing agreement (like GPL infects all resulting products).  The
only
thing that J doesn't do compared to Open Source is you don't get
access
to the source code.  But it is free to use.

Of course Jsoftware would like a share of what you make but you don't
have to pay anything unless you want access to the source code.

see http://www.jsoftware.com