[apluslist] Community Contriibutions

[Steven H. Rogers]

While there have been some community contributions to A+, there haven't 
been many.  I'm torn between A+ and J and the fact that J has an active 
user community is one of its strong points.  I appreciate Morgan 
Stanleyl open sourcing A+, but it seems rather moribound. 

I have A+ 4.18 installed on my main system and 4.20 one which sees less 
use.  Which should I use?  I've been holding off on installing 4.20 on 
my main machine until the documentation catches up.  Any idea when this 
might happen?

I gather that the Morgan Stanley A+ developers have been assigned other 
duties, though they still support A+.  Priorites are unclear and Morgan 
Stanley's continued support may be in question.  If so, would community 
participation have an impact on decisions in this area?

How can the community help?  Some things are obvious, e.g. you need more 
example programs, but a todo list might inspire some of us to do 
something.   If we get inspired enough to submit patches to the C/C++ 
code, what is the procedure? 

Regards,
Steve
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Steven H. Rogers, PhD.
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