Re: APL & Programming Concepts

Did you find enough money to pay for it?   {sorry, couldn't resist....}

I wish IBM was creative enough (from a management point of view) to
envision 
a much, much cheaper - and perhaps "lite" - version. The pricing is 
prohibitive except for corporations (and not all of them would bite
either, 
I'm afraid).

regards

"Mb" <mebian@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Curtis A. Jones wrote:
>> On May 7, 2:41 am, Mb <meb...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> ...
>>> The lack of a good, complete, cross-platform version  of APL (and the
>>> like), open source and working on as many platforms as possible is
what
>>> blocks me from the final jump on to this otherwise beautiful wagon
....
>> ...
>>> Marco Bianchi
>>
>> Marco,
>> IBM's Workstation APL2 runs on Windows, Solaris, AIX, and Linux.  It
>> cooperates well with IBM's mainframe APL2 on VM and MVS.  I'm using
>> APL2 on OS/2 at home.  What other platform do you need?  Is APL2 not
>> good enough?  Incomplete?  What's missing?  True - it's been 40 years
>> since it was open source.  Curtis
>
> Curtis,
> Thanks a lot for the suggestion, but I was only able to find a time 
> limited version of APL2, for Windows only, on IBM's site. It's
wonderfully 
> complete, that's true, but ... perhaps I missed the link to its not 
> crippled, multi-platform open version :-) ?
>
> I'll keep watching, maybe I'm terribly wrong (or I didn't find the right

> link to the software ..... quite possible :-) ).
>
> Marco