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From: "Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)" <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: [9fans] APL
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 14:31:13 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <09039be1035b0ed7@orthanc.ca> (raw)

Long ago and far away I built/ran Thompson's APL (from the V7 source
tape IIRC) on one of the VAXen.  This was very much pre-ANSI C code,
but the Ultrix 1.1 compiler handled it fine.

About 15 years ago I dusted off the source and started converting
it to ANSI C, but I got distracted and have since lost the source.
Has anyone here done anything similar.  I would really like to have
a native APL (even an ancient one like above).  If anyone did get
it converted to ANSI, a native port could be bootstrapped through
APE. 

Failing that, does anybody have a copy of the original source
kicking around?  Since the virus is going to keep me locked up
for a few more months yet, porting would help pass the time :-)

--lyndon

P.S.  Yes I know there are a million other APLs out there, as
well as J and the assorted follow-ons.  It's the V7 code I'm
specifically interested in.  Maybe it's tucked away in the
bitsaver archives ...

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             reply	other threads:[~2021-02-21 22:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-21 22:31 Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) [this message]
2021-02-21 23:01 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2021-02-21 23:19 ` Kurt H Maier
2021-02-22  1:24 ` Bakul Shah
2021-02-22 16:53   ` jas
2021-02-22 17:46     ` arnold
2021-02-22 18:28       ` tlaronde
2021-02-22 20:35         ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2021-02-22 21:44           ` Charles Forsyth
2021-02-23  8:14             ` tlaronde
2021-02-23  8:58               ` arnold
2021-02-23  9:20                 ` tlaronde
2021-02-23  9:57                   ` arnold
2021-02-23 10:09                     ` tlaronde
2021-02-23  7:57           ` tlaronde
2021-02-22 22:01         ` Bakul Shah
2021-02-22 22:43           ` Charles Forsyth
2021-02-22 23:09             ` Bakul Shah
2021-02-22 23:56               ` Charles Forsyth
2021-02-23  0:13                 ` Bakul Shah
2021-02-23  0:03               ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-02-23  0:47                 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2021-02-23  4:41                   ` ori
2021-02-23  5:11                     ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2021-02-23  5:16                     ` Bakul Shah
2021-02-24 13:48                   ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-03-08 22:11                     ` Jerome Ibanes
2021-02-24  0:33 Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)

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