Re: [9fans] APL for Plan 9?

[Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>]

Hello,

On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 at 19:36, Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote:
> > There's a Plan 9 port of J 3.02 in /n/sources/contrib/miller/j/8.j
> >
> > 386 executable only, as I don't have permission to share source, but I can
> > compile for other $objtypes on request.
>
> I recall the port being very simple to do, so it would probably be
> worthwhile to do again now that it's open source.
>

I tried to build and run a recent version of J on OpenBSD, and
it wasn't straightforward for me (but I don't know much...).
Their building system is a mess with many various conditions
to guess the OS, processor, ...
But. There are several parts of the system: jlibrary, jconsole, jqt.
The first two I finally managed to compile on OpenBSD, I failed with
jqt (which is a very nice qt-based environment, btw.) And nobody will
use the latter on Plan9.

I also note that there now exists a GPL'd version of the K language,
Kona. That one was straightforward to build on OpenBSD.

Ruda