[aplusdev] Win port revisited

[Bob Cain]

Brian Redman wrote:

> Hello Bob,
> 
> wxWindows looks pretty good.  I'm not doing anything with it but I'd be
> thrilled if someone wanted to hook it into A+.
> 
>         brian

I would love to myself but GUI programming is way outside my areas of
expertise.  I wonder where we would look for such folks.  From what I
gather on comp.lang.apl, APL is not a young man's programming language
(typically, I started with it in 1967 or thereabouts) and the young'uns
are mostly the ones with the GUI facility and the energy for big open
source projects.  Heavy sigh.

What I am dying for is a framework for developing a library equivalent
to Matlab's DSP toolkits within a sane language but it must run on
PC's.  With such a capability I think that many DSP folks, and there are
a lot of them, could be lured into APL (read A+) land who might not
otherwise be willing to give it a look.  To get this language cooking
(again) we need a modern "killer app" and a comprehensive DSP package
would go a long way toward that.  From there I think the word could
spread like wild fire.  Everything people like about Matlab is done
better in APL/A+ and then some.


Bob

P.S.  Brian, replying to mail from the list sends it to you personally
unless I edit the To: line.
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                                             A. Einstein


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