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
