[aplusdev] Win port revisited

[Jacob Smullyan]

I learned APL in college in 1983, fell in love with it, and was delighted to
see the recent release of A+.  However, I feel that the APL community could do
a lot more to attract new programmers to it.  I believe that if a more
substantial effort was made to welcome the sorts of folks who loll about all
day, reading the latest freshmeat entries, the effort would be rewarded.  

Online tutorials would make a big difference.  And charming as APL fonts are, a
more intuitive ASCII mapping, perhaps modelled on J, would remove a
significant obstacle.

Just my two cents!

js

--- Bob Cain <arcane at znet.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.
> -- 
> 
> "Things should be described as simply as possible, but no simpler."
> 
>                                              A. Einstein
> 
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Jacob Smullyan
smulloni at yahoo.com

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