From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Cc: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Subject: Re: [9fans] APL for Plan 9?
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 18:39:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <69e66b52839ca67c@orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1536241300.2845408.1498940256.291E2EA4@webmail.messagingengine.com>
Ethan Gardener writes:
> Is there an implementation of APL or a related language for Plan 9?
For pure APL, I don't think so. Long ago I ran the Thompson APL
interpreter on our Ultrix VAX. It was built from source, but I
forget which tape it came from. It would have been one of V7 or
4.2BSD, methinks.
I built it in the first place to write code to analyze/report
performance stats on our VAXen vs. the swaths of 3B2 and 3B4000
hardware that AT&T was trying to foist on us at the time :-)
Once or twice I have toyed with the idea of getting it running on
Plan9. But the C source is very pre-ANSI, and as I recall there are
many embedded assumptions about everything being 32-bits wide, pointers
and ints are interchangeable, *0 == 0, etc. Still, it would be a
fun project, and I would love to have a native APL to play with again.
--lyndon
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-07 1:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-06 13:41 Ethan Gardener
2018-09-06 14:05 ` Dave Lukes
2018-09-06 14:19 ` Bakul Shah
2018-09-06 14:26 ` Greg Lewin
2018-09-06 17:33 ` Richard Miller
2018-09-07 6:35 ` Rudolf Sykora
2018-09-07 6:48 ` Bakul Shah
2018-09-07 14:16 ` Xiao-Yong Jin
2018-09-10 6:48 ` Rudolf Sykora
2018-09-07 1:39 ` Lyndon Nerenberg [this message]
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