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APL Frequently Asked Questions  (well some, anyway)
Maintained by S.W. Sirlin
Thanks to the many people who have contributed to this list.

4/18/2011 Update Dyalog address.


First, what is APL?
APL is the first array processing language (that I know of anyway).
The following was extracted from http://www.acm.org/sigapl/whyapl.htm.

The language was invented by Kenneth E. Iverson while at Harvard
University.  The language, originally titled "Iverson Notation", was
designed to overcome the inherent ambiguities and points of confusion
found when dealing with standard mathematical notation.  It was later
described in 1962 in a book simply titled "A Programming Language"
(hence APL).  Towards the end of the sixties, largely through the
efforts of IBM, the computer community gained its first exposure to
APL.  Iverson received the Turing Award in 1979 for this work.

APL is a user-oriented notation, particularly well suited for
communication from people to other people or to computers.  The
notation consists of a set of symbols (letters, numbers, punctuation,
algebra, and special shapes), with a very simple set of rules (syntax)
for putting them together to describe the processing of data.  The
data can be either numeric or literal (which includes words and text
handling).

In fact there are about a hundred different "primitive"
(i.e. fundamental to APL) operations which can be performed.  This can
be compared to having a calculator with over 100 different function
keys.

Following the old Chinese proverb that a picture is worth a thousand
words, the APL symbol set is the equivalent of many words in
describing algorithms or procedures.  Often one or a few APL symbols
(function) can have the same result as several lines of code in
another computer language or of several paragraphs in English.
...See http://www.acm.org/sigapl/whyapl.htm
for the rest of the article, or check out some of the web links or
books listed below for more information.
Wikipedia has a good overview as well
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language).



The questions I'm answering here are:
  1. Where can I find APL for machine X?
  2. How do I use APL on an XX terminal connected to machine YY?
  3. What about APL keyboards/stickers?
  4. Can I compile APL?
  5. What tools exist for APL?
  6. Can I get an APL font for X?
  7. What information exists online about APL?
  8. How do I get book Y?
  9. What good APL books exist?
10. What user groups exist?
11. What's the latest  APL conference?
12. How do I pass APL functions from one APL to another?
13. How do I write APL using only ASCII?
14. What about Unicode?

The primary format for this faq is html. I use lex and aplc to convert
this to a text version that is autoposted to the newsgroup.
For the (text) latest version available, see ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/
(where all the autoposted faq's are archived), in particular
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/comp.lang.apl/APL_language_FAQ.
Another good place for faq archives is http://www.faqs.org/,
with this faq at http://www.faqs.org/faqs/apl-faq/.
The latest html version of this faq is at
http://home.earthlink.net/~swsirlin/apl.faq.html



(1)   Q: Where can I find APL for machine X?
A: APL SOURCES

   A+ [1/2002]
   A+ is an APL dialect available (as source) under the GNU GPL for
   various Unix, including Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
   developed at Morgan Stanley by Arthur Whitney et al.
   http://www.aplusdev.org
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/aplus/
   The BAA has had some success in porting to Windows, see
   http://www.vector.org.uk/aflat

   APL\11
   APL\11 is a freely available APL interpreter for UNIX (C),
   thanks to Michael Cain. Currently has some bugs.
   See also openAPL below. Port to FreeBSD available
   (email: [e-mail])
       email: [e-mail].

APL92
     APL92 (Mac, system 7.1), older APL90:
         ftp://ftp.emse.fr/pub/lang/apl/[dead 12/2005]
         Jean-Jacques Girardot
         School Mines
         St-Etienne, France
         email: [e-mail]

APLette [6/16/2010]
     APLette  is a java program written by L. Paris that
     implements much of the language
         See http://lparis45.free.fr/apl.html

   APLNow and APLNext (APL2000, formerly STSC)[9/2008]
     APL+Win (for Windows 2000 and newer), APL+WebServices, APL+WebComponent,
       APL+Link Pro, APL+Linux and APL+UNIX, VisualAPL for Microsoft .Net and Visual Studio 2005/2008.

         APLNow LLC d.b.a. APL2000
         One Research Ct., Suite 140
         Rockille, MD USA 20850
         Main Tel: [phone]
         Sales Tel: [phone], Sales Fax: [phone]
         Support Tel: [phone], Support Fax: [phone]
         Consulting Services Tel: [phone]
         email: [e-mail]
                [e-mail]
                [e-mail]
         http://www.APL2000.com
http://www.visualstudiogallery.com:80/ExtensionDetails.aspx?ExtensionID=6fc98bd4-2a43-43c7-9acf-bf0bf56e038e
         Canadian Distributor:
         APL Borealis Inc.
         900 Mt. Pleasant Rd., #1501
         Toronto, Ontario Canada M4P 3J9
         Tel: [phone]
         Tel: [phone]
         email: [e-mail]
         http://www.aplborealis.com
         International Dealers:
         http://www.apl2000.com/intldealers.php

   APLX (was APL.68000)[5/2004]
     APLX for Windows, Mac OS (including Mac OS X), Linux and AIX
     (APL.6800 ran on Atari ST, IBM RS/6000, Mac level I/II,
     add in board for IBM pc's, PowerMac, Amiga). APLX for Linux is
     free for non-commercial use.
         MicroAPL Limited
         The Roller Mill, Mill Lane
         Uckfield, E. Sussex
         TN22 5AA, UK
         Tel: [phone], FAX: [phone]
         email: [e-mail]
         WWW: http://www.microapl.co.uk

   APLSE
     APLSE/LRNAPLSE (APL*PLUS v10 freeware, PCDOS, W95/98, NT):

         APLSE is a version of Manugistics/STSC's PC APL, available
         with very little documentation. It can be found at [5/2005]
http://home.comcast.net/~paul.l.jackson/APL/
http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/languages/apl/apl-plus/
http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/apl_archives/apl/apl-plus/index.html
         LRNAPLSE is a package
         including APLSE, on-screen lessons (with additional
         documentation), and the APL*PLUS Demo (more documentation).
         Ask for a catalog of APL books and software from Dick Holt, [e-mail]

         Fonts under W95, WNT, (WME?) are troublesome. Here is some
         information from Allan Zenth ([e-mail]):
         I tried to use APL-PLUS v.10 (essentially the same as APL SE) under Windows
         95 and Windows NT. I don't know about Windows ME.
         First the bad things: You cannot work in a window with symbols (only
         full-screen) and using a code-page for symbols is not possible in NT.
         The difficult thing is to have a stable full-screen situation and the most
         difficult was NT.
         1) Make a short-cut on the screen to the apl.exe file. Go into the
            properties (right-click on the icon).
         2) On the program-page refer to the bat-file in the command-line field an
            set run to maximized
         3) On the memory-page I use 1MB in EMS, XMS&  DPMI - perhabs not important
         4) On the screen-page set full-screen
         5) On the misc-page remove the check-mark for Ctrl+Esc - Important to have
            in APL
         6) Go into C:\WinNT\Pif and make sure, that you have the same short-cut
            here
         7) Here should also be a short-cut for your font.com:
         7a) On the program page refer to the file itself on the command-line, set
             run to maximized and remove the mark in "close on exit" (important!!)
         7b) The same alterations on the other pages as above.
         8) If you use aplprint.com for function-printout it should be treated as
            font.com
         Try to use this method in Windows ME - it might be the way out.

   APL*PLUS II/VMS, Statgraphics
     This was distributed by Manugistics (formerly STSC) but now has
         been taken over by APL2000 (above).
         Manugistics
         2115 East Jefferson St.
         Rockville, Maryland, USA  20852
         Tel: [phone]
         Fax: [phone]
         email: support: [e-mail]
                 international: [e-mail]
         BBS: 301-984-5222

   APROL
     APROL (Scheme/J mix):
         For information (7/15/98):
         http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~jhowland/aprol.paper.ps
         email: [e-mail]

   CAPLIB2
     CAPLIB2 (Linux, DOS, HPUX, can be ported to other Unix) GPL interpreter, C library
         Thomas Glen Smith
         3154 W. Shady Lane
         Neenah, WI
         email: [e-mail]
          http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/apl_archives/apl/CAP/index.html
         http://www.apl2.de/ Possible future development

   D4 [8/2000]
     D4 (IBM PC, Windows, Linux). Unix like shell for windows
         The shell is writen in D4, a dialect of APL
         http://www.d4maths.lowtech.org
         For more information contact the author Tony Goddard  email:[e-mail]

   DEC
     DEC (VAX APL V4.0):
         Digital Equipment Corp.
         Maynard, MASS, USA

   Dyalog APL [4/2011]
     Dyalog APL (Win 95/98/ME/2000/XP, Unix/Motif, Windows 3.x,
     PocketPC 2002). Available free for educational use.
         Source:
            Dyalog Ltd.
            Minchens Court, Minchens Lane, Bramley
            Hampshire RG26 5BH, UK
            Tel: [phone]
            email : [e-mail]
             http://www.dyalog.com
            Partners:
            http://www.dyalog.com/partners.htm

   FreeAPL
     IBM PC, MS Windows, version of APL\11
            Tauno Ylinen, email:
            [e-mail]
            http://www.pyr.fi/apl/index.htm

   Glee
     Glee is an APL descendent, for MS Windows
            http://withglee.com/
   I-APL
     IBM PC, Mac, some other PCs (free*):
         In the US (may require lots of patience):
            Edward M. Cherlin
            Co-Chairman, I-APL Limited
            6611 Linville Drive
            Weed, California, USA  96094-9763
            Tel: [phone], Fax: [phone]
            email: [e-mail]


         In the UK:
            Anthony Camacho
            Co-Chairman, I-APL Limited
            11 Auburn Road
            Redland
            Bristol BS6 6LS UK

   IBM APL2 [11/09]
     APL2 for Windows, AIX, Linux, Solaris and Mainframes
           APL Products and Services
           IBM Silicon Valley Lab, Dept. H36/F40
           555 Bailey Avenue
           San Jose, California 95141, USA
           Tel: 408-463-APL2 (408-463-2752), FAX: [phone]
           email: [e-mail]
           web page:http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/apl
           forum:https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=2104
           documentation:http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/apl/library.html
           ftp site:ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com
           IBM support site. Look in /ps/products/apl2
           Products:
           From 1-800-IBM-CALL or ibm.com
           Workstation APL2 Version 2 (Windows, AIX, Linux, Solaris) is
              IBM Program Product Number 5724-B74
           APL2 Version 2 (CMS, TSO) is Program Number 5688-228
           APL2 Application Environment for CMS/TSO is Program Number
           5688-229

   J
     J (for Linux, Mac, Windows, WindowsCE) [7/2008],
       Produced by:
         Jsoftware Inc.
         http://www.jsoftware.com
         email: [e-mail]
         An early version of J (J7, about 1994) is available on waterloo.

   K
     K, Kdb;  an APL derivative for Solaris, Linux, Windows
         Kx Systems
         http://www.kx.com

   MacAPL
     Macs (?) version 2.11 (I don't know much about this yet)
       Michael C. O'Connor
       Leptonic Systems Co.
       405 Tarrytown Rd., White Plains, NY 10607
       Tel: [phone]
       version 1.13
       ftp://ftp.uwtc.washington.edu/pub/Mac/Programming/Languages/
       (no longer: ftp://ftp.ens.fr/pub/mac/hqx/ )

   NARS2000 [7/2009]
     NARS2000 is a freely available open source APL interpreter for
     Windows 2000 and later versions as well as various versions of
     Linux using Wine (http://www.winehq.org/) as a translation
     layer.  NARS2000 is an Experimental APL Interpreter being worked
     on by members of the APL community. Available in 32 bit and 64 bit
     versions.

     http://www.nars2000.org
     email:[e-mail]
     wiki:http://wiki.nars2000.org
     Forums: http://forums.nars2000.org

   openAPL
     New (11/98) version of apl\11 (above). Alpha release, under
         GPL (free source). Ported to Linux/X11
         ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/lang/apl
         Branko Bratkovic, South Australia.
         email to branko at senet dot com dot au
         Now (7/2005) in development at sourceforge by Peter Jeremy (mangled
         mail address: [e-mail]):
         http://sourceforge.net/projects/openapl

   Parrot APL [11/2006]
     APL is one of the languages part of the parrot project - a
     generic interpreter backend with more than 30 languages included (Perl,
     Ruby Basic, Scheme etc). GPL (free source). Unix +.
         http://www.parrotcode.org/

   Q'Nial [12/4/2006]
     Q'Nial is a highly portable interpreter for Nial originally
     developed at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada in the early
     1980s. NIAL stands for the Nested Interactive Array Language,
     a hybrid language combining a functional array language based on
     Trenchard More's mathematical treatment of nested arrays
     called Array Theory, with a procedural language with familiar
     control structures. Q'Nial is open source, with versions available
     for Unix and Windows.
         NIAL Systems Limited
         46 William St.
         Kingston, Ontario
         K7L 2C4
         http://www.nial.com/
         email:  [e-mail]

   SHARP APL
     SHARP APL (MVS, AIX, SunOS, Solaris, Linux [1/02])
     Sharp APL for Linux is free for personal use; other products are
     Viewpoint, LOGOS, Mailbox
         Soliton Associates Limited (Formerly I. P. Sharp Associates)
         44 Victoria St, Suite 2100
         Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5C 1Y2
         Tel: [phone]  Fax: [phone]
         email: [e-mail]
         http://www.soliton.com
         Soliton Associates, Inc.
         1100 University Ave., Suite 111
         Rochester, NY 14607
         USA
         Tel: [phone],  Fax: [phone]
         Soliton Associates Limited
         Havsgaardsvej 4
         2900 Hellerup
         Copenhagen, Denmark
         Tel: [phone], Fax: [phone]
         email: [e-mail]



(2)   Q: How do I use APL on an XX terminal connected to machine YY?
A: Terminal Emulation

   Apex Computer Specialists
     APL Key Boards and key caps for MG800/T7000 terminals, for WICAT/MCS
     systems, as well as terminal with both the ASCII and APL character
     codes.
      Bert Arias
      Apex Computer Specialists, Inc.
      1502 West 400 South, Suite #2
      Orem, UT  84058-5100
      Tel: [phone], Ext. 3357
      Int.l 1-801-223-3357
      Fax:   [phone]
      e-mail: [e-mail]

   Chameleon
     Chameleon TN3270 for Windows, networks, IBM 3179G and 3192G emulation,
     SAA, APA graphics.
                 NetManage
                 10725 De Anza Blvd., Cupertino, CA 95014, U.S.A.
                 Tel: [phone]
                 Fax: [phone]
                 email: [e-mail]

   EXTRA!
     EXTRA! Extended for DOS or EXTRA! for Windows.
                 Includes APL2 character set in both.  DOS product works under Windows.
                 Attachmate Corporation
                 13231 S.E. 36th Street
                 Bellevue, Washington 98006 USA
                 tel. [phone]
                 [phone] in Washington State

   IBM Terminal Emulator
     IBM Terminal Emulators with APL Support:
                 AIX:  AIX X-Windows 3270 Emulator/6000  (X3270) Program Number 5765-011
                 DOS/Windows:  PC/3270 Version 3, Version 4 9/30
                 OS2 Extended Services Communications Manager:
                 Includes the CMAPL Application Aid.  Requires APAR fixes
                 after the Graphics Engine CSD is installed.
                 OS2 Communications Manager/2  (CM/2):
                 APL Support is available in Version 1.11

   IRMA
     IRMA (PC) ??
                 Digital Communications Associates, Inc.
                 1000 Alderman Drive
                 Alpharetta, Georgia 30201-4199 USA
                 tel. [phone]

   Kermit
     Dyalog APL reportedly has a tweaked kermit for APL/X 6.x. This
                 supports APL characters on a PC (DOS or DOS session under Windows)
                 when running APL on a Unix box.

   RUMBA
     RUMBA (for 3270, APL and graphics)
         Wall Data
         17769 NE 78th Place
         Redmond WA 98052-4992
         206-883-4777
     Apparently available here:http://www.microfocus.com/products/RUMBA/RUMBAMainframe.asp.

   rxvt
     OpenAPL has support for X11 terminals, but this may not match
     character orderings for other APLs.

   Sun
     Sun reportedly has a very good emulator (dtterm) for SunOS 4 and Solaris 2
     which emulates an IBM 3179G APA colour graphics terminal. Part of
     CDE, so probably obsolete.

   TN3270 [2/2010]
     TN3270 (Macintosh) Not public domain, but may be freely distributed.
     Works with TCP/IP
         See the homepage at Brown http://www.brown.edu/cis/tn3270/

         May also be here? ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/

         BITNET distribution from LISTSERV@BROWNVM:
            Send LISTSERV the command GET TN3270 PACKAGE.  GET LOCAL FILELIST
            for a complete list of available files.

   x3270 [2/2010]
     x3270 for Unix systems (Linux, Solaris,...)
            A free 327x emulator with APL support. Get the
            source from http://x3270.bgp.nu/download.html,
            or see the home page at http://x3270.bgp.nu/.
            An older version is here ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications.

   YTERM
     YTERM For PC, supports IBM, VAX, TCP/IP with APL/APL2 chars. [?]
            Yale University Computing&  Information Systems
            Software Distribution
            175 Whitney Avenue
            New Haven CT 06520
            Tel: [phone]   Fax: [phone]
            LISTSERV@YALEVM
            http://www.uic.edu/depts/adn/infwww/txt/v3113001.txt

   Z-Stem [?]
     Z-Stem, a series of VT (e.g. VT240) emulators, for MSDOS PC/VAX-11
            KEA Systems
            3738 North Fraser Way, Unit 101
            Burnaby, British Columbia
            Canada, V5J 5G1
            [phone]




(3)   Q: What about APL keyboards/stickers?
A: APL Keyboards/Keycaps

   APL keyboard
     IBM/Lexmark keyboard, part no. 60G3571 or KB-571,
         (Professional 101-key keyboard about $90)
         APL2 Keycaps, US and UK base set (about $46)SX80-0270
         APL2 Keycaps, German Upgrade to SX80-0270   SX80-0452
         APL2 Keycaps, German Upgrade to SX80-0270   SX80-0453
         APL2 Keycaps, French Upgrade to SX80-0270   SX80-0454
         APL2 Keycaps, Italian Upgrade to SX80-0270  SC33-0604
         APL2 Keyboard Decals (about $13 for set of two)
         Keycaps and decals are "publications" - order at 800-879-2755

   Keyboard stickers, custom replacement key caps
         Hooleon Corp.
         P.O. Box 230
         Cornville, AZ  86325
         Tel: [phone]
         Fax: [phone]

   Keyboard stickers
     APL2000 Inc. (see above address)

   On-screen Maps
     KEYBOARD.AWS: APL*PLUS pop-up color keyboard diagram
     at the touch of a PF key. Incorporate it in any .AWS.
     Ask for catalog from email:[e-mail]




(4)   Q: Can I compile APL?
A: Compilers

     APL2C
     APL2C compiler/translator and interpreter,
     for Microsoft Windows 9x/NT/2000, written by Dr. Tilman P. Otto
         http://www.apl2c.com
         email: [e-mail]

     APL to C
     APL to C conversion and compiler
         - I've heard this is out of business these days.
         Sofremi-AGL
         6. rue Paul Bert
         92800 Puteaux - France
         (1) 47.72.25.13 +  Telex: 612 651 F

     IBM 370 APL*PLUS
     Manugistics compiler for IBM 370 APL*PLUS, documented in APL '85.
         see Manugistics listing above, or
         email [e-mail].

   VisualAPL
     VisualAPL from is a .Net language integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio
         2005/20008 which provides for both compilation and scripted/interpreted code
         http://www.visualstudiogallery.com/ExtensionDetails.aspx?ExtensionID=6fc98bd4-2a43-43c7-9acf-bf0bf56e038e


   Experimental:

   APEX
     Robert Bernecky's APEX compiler:
         Snake Island Research Inc.
         http://www.snakeisland.com/[9/2003]
         email:[e-mail]

   APLc
     Tim Budd's APLc:
         anonymous login to ftp.cs.orst.edu, cd users/b/budd, or
         http://www.cs.orst.edu/~budd and look under books.
         (latest C++ version unavailable?)

         Sam Sirlin's current modification of Budd's older aplc
         o  ported to Solaris, Freebsd, Atari, Linux, Dec Alpha
             o  support for most of ISO APL, control structures, boxed arrays
             o  support for hypercomplex numbers (ordinary complex, quaternions, octonions)
         v5.12 is stable version (mostly flat APL)
         v6.14 is the development version (anonymous fns, more operator
         support)
         See http://home.earthlink.net/~swsirlin/apl.html
         or send mail to [e-mail] asking for it

   CAPLIB
     Thomas Glen Smith's CAPLIB2 package, while not strictly a compiler
         Has C procedures corresponding to APL functions/operators (see above)

   PLJsAPL
   Paul Jackson's Free APL compiler, written in .net, is available
   from https://home.comcast.net/~paul.l.jackson/PLJsAPL/

     A list of references on APL compilation is available
    ftp://archive.uwaterloo.ca/languages/apl/bibliography/compilers.html[dead 3/2006]




(5)   Q: What tools exist for APL?
A: Other tools for APL

   Dino database for huge amount of data,Saurus tools for
   multidimensional databases
      Dinosoft Oy
      Lonnrotinkatu 21 C
      00120 HELSINKI, Finland
      Tel: [phone], Fax: [phone]
      email: [e-mail]
      http://www.dinosoft.fi/

   IEDIT (APL2 editor),AFM file system,APL2  tools[dead 3/2006]
     Interprocess Systems, Inc.

   Insight Systems [4/2000]
     SQAPL, an interface to SQL databases via ODBC or
     SequeLink, a spreadsheet manager, and a number of other APL tools
     available for many APL systems. Dealers for Dyalog APL, APL+Win
     from Cognos/APL2000, APL2 from IBM, J from Jsoftware,
     Causeway Products.

        Insight Systems ApS
        Nordre Strandvej 119G
        DK-3150 Hellebaek, Denmark
        Tel:   [phone]
        FAX:     [phone]
        http://www.insight.dk
        [e-mail]


   APs for Dyalog APL for Windows
     Auxiliary Processors for Dyalog APL for Windows
        Lingo Allegro USA, Inc.
        6749 S.Westnedge Ave, Suite K-268
        Tel:    [phone]
        Fax:      [phone]
        Internet: [e-mail]
        http://www.lingo.com

   Computer Aided Instruction

   Computer Aided Instruction, for PC or mainframe IBM.  Also a newsletter.
        Zark Incorporated
        23 Ketchbrook Lane
        Ellington CT 06029 USA

   Converting CSV files to APL

   Some functions for converting Comma-Separated-Value (CSV)
   files (e.g. from spreadsheets such as excell) to APL
       http://aplwiki.com/CsvToApl


(6)   Q: Can I get an APL font for X?
A: Besides commercial products that come with the interpreters, there are:

   o Fonts for TeX, laTeX, the X windows system, postscript, and
   truetype (windows) are available.  See
   http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/apl_archives/apl/fonts[4/2009]

   o Truetype fonts for windows are available from ISI.

   o Truetype fonts Dyalog APL and Vector APL are available gratis, if
   you send a blank, formatted disk:
      Adrian Smith
      Brook House, Gilling East, YORK
      England -- U.K.
    (See his article in the April 1993 issue of VECTOR journal)

   o STSC, now Manugistics, used to distribute a rom chip with the APL
    characters for use in old monochrome adapters (now almost
    extinct). There's also code called SIMCGA.COM, that makes an old
    Hercules act like a cga (itself pretty old).

   o Fonts from several vendors are available for use (free of charge)
    in preparing articles for APL Quote Quad, APL conference
    proceedings, or other educational articles.  This can be found on
    the ACM SIGAPL Web site. Word processing Templates to aid the
    author in preparing articles for conference proceedings or for
    submission to APL Quote Quad can also be found on the ACM SIGAPL
    web site.

   o Paul Houle has made a DOS window font file suitable for use with
   old STSC APL's available here [5/17/04]:
http://paulhoule.com/stscfon/index.htm

   o Paul L Jackson's pljtools.zip contains DOSAPP.FON which if put in
    the Windows\Font directory, will provide an 8x16 APL font for a DOS
    window. This should work for various MS Windows products and
    APLSE. This is available at waterloo
    http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/apl_archives/apl/apl-plus/index.html
    and (with APLSE) [5/05]:
    http://home.comcast.net/~paul.l.jackson/APL/

   o A variety of fonts and tools is available from Vector:
    http://www.vector.org.uk/resource



(7)   Q: What information exists online about APL?
A:

Online information, free* APLs&  WS

o Anonymous ftp servers:

         o ftp://rtfm.mit.edu The official archive site for this faq and
         many others. The latest version of this faq is at
         ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/comp.lang.apl/APL_language_FAQ

         o University of Waterloo, Canada. L.J. Dickey's
         collection. Lots of J/APL archives.
         http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/apl_archives/Welcome.html[back up 3/2006]
         Some APL draft standards are kept here, for example the Committee Draft 1 of the APL ANSI/ISO standard
         http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/apl_archives/apl/standards/cd1/

         o ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com, IBM support site. Look in
         ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/apl2.
         ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/apl2/demos contains a
         free (time limited) demo of APL2 for Windows, and TryAPL.

o Web Sites:

         o ACM SIGAPL - information about the ACM, SIGAPL, related
         organizations, conferences, Internet resources, and the APL
         White Pages.
         http://www.acm.org/sigapl/

         o AFAPL - French APL users group.
         http://www.afapl.asso.fr

         o  APL Quotations and Anecdotes.
         http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APLQA.htm

         o APL White Pages
         A collection of names and email adressess of those
         interested in APL. Over 300 listings.
         To be listed, or see a listing go to
         http://www.acm.org/sigapl

         o  A Programming Language (APL/J/K,  The Movie), the movie
         blog http://www.aprogramminglanguage.com/

         o Bob Armstrong's CoSy page - APL/K notecomputing environment (10/2001)
         http://cosy.com/K/CoSy.htm, or
         http://cosy.com/language/

         o APL2000 Inc. Home Page
         http://www.APL2000.com

         o APL Team Ltd - German distributor of Dyalog APL
         http://www.aplteam.de and
         http://www.aplteam.com
         They have a general wiki on APL at
         http://aplwiki.com/

         o The Brighton University Resource Kit for Students, produced by
         John English (with various APL resources)
         http://burks.bton.ac.uk[broken?
         9/19/2003]

         o Bernard Houben's site, Inverted Data Analyser, Dyalog APL [5/18/04]
         http://home.wanadoo.nl/houb/IDA.htm

         o Eke van Batenburg's APL webpage:
         http://www.ekevanbatenburg.nl/PRVAPL.HTML

         o FinnAPL, Tauno Ylinen's FREEAPL for Windows, a couple of
         Dyalog workspaces, and APL idioms list
         http://www.pyr.fi/apl/index.htm
         http://www.pyr.fi/apl/about.htm

         o Free APL Compilers and Interpreters  (page title, actually
         only interpreters are listed). Currently [3/2010] includes links to J,
         APLSE, A+, OpenAPL, FreeAPL, APLX, APL!.
         http://www.thefreecountry.com/compilers/apl.shtml

         o Conrad Hoesle-Kienzlen's web page [dead 6/2009],
         CHK IT-Consulting
         http://www.hoesle-kienzlen.de

         o Google groups: J discussions
         http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming

         o IBM APL2 Home Page
         http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/apl

         o The IBM 1130 - including a simulator for this HW on a
         modern machine, and APL\1130. http://ibm1130.org/
         o J and APL Web Ring
         Web-ring moderated by  Alex Kornilovski:
         http://webhome.idirect.com/~kornal/ring/index.html

         o J Home Page
         http://www.jsoftware.com

         o J. E. Howland's Home page; APL/J references
         http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~jhowland/

         o J.E.H. Shaw's Home page; J Guide
         http://www.warwick.ac.uk/statsdept/Staff/JEHS/index.html

         o K. Smillie's Home page; Various information for J, Beginning
         J, J and statistics
         http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~smillie/

         o Lescasse Consulting - importer, distributor for APL2000 in France
         http://www.lescasse.com

         o Lingo Allegro Web Site:
         http://www.lingo.com

         o MicroAPL Limited
         http://www.microapl.co.uk

         o Milinta - Software and education for a variety of
         APL's. Help with workspace/file transfer between some APLs.
         (Dyalog, APL+family, SHARP MF, SAX)
         http://www.milinta.com

         o Mozilla Open Directory project
         http://dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/APL/

         o Openhere Network - Web search engine written in APL
         http://openhere.com/

         o Porting Mind.forth to APL
         http://mind.sourceforge.net/apl.html

         o Q'Nial - a similar array language
         http://www.nial.com/

         o Rex Swain's APL Information
         http://www.rexswain.com/aplinfo.html

         o Rubick's Cube in APL
         http://www.nyx.net/~anon84c2/

         o Remembering APL - a short introduction. Some good
         information on glyphs used by some dialects.
         http://www.quadibloc.com/comp/aplint.htm

         o Soliton's web page
         http://www.soliton.com (Main Page)

         o Toronto APL SIG - Activities of Toronto members.
         http://www.torontoapl.ca[8/2007]

         o Vector web site (maintained by Ray Cannon)
         http://www.vector.org.uk

         o VisualAPL from APL2000 Home Page: www.visualapl.com

         o Jim Weigang's Home Page - Newsreader etc.
         http://www.chilton.com/~jimw

o Wiki -- websites that allows visitors to add, remove, and edit content


o General APL Wiki from the German distributor of Dyalog APLhttp://aplwiki.com/
o J Wiki http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki
o Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language).

o Mail servers

      [e-mail] ([e-mail]), in the list APL-L,
      archives of comp.lang.apl
      [e-mail] - mail access to waterloo, gatekeeper

o Mail servers/lists
      [e-mail] - access to waterloo?

      Access to the APL-L on bitnet from the internet can be done via
      mail:

         To: [e-mail]
         Subject: SUBSCRIBE APL-L
         SUBSCRIBE APL-L

        DyalogAPL     [e-mail]
                      for Dyalog users
        APL-ERS       [e-mail]
                      UCD APL Interest Group "virtually extinct"
        APL-L         [e-mail],
                      [e-mail] (broken?)
                      APL Language Discussion (mirror of comp.lang.apl)
        [e-mail]
                      APL in Education
        A+http://www.aplusdev.org/Lists/index.html
                      A+ mail list, archive
        J Forumhttp://www.jsoftware.com
                      J mail list, archive

o Inquiries about the ISO APL standards should be addressed to
    your national standards body, or to any delagete from your
    country.  If you can not find out who that is, you may ask
    Lee Dickey at [e-mail] (SC22 WG3 attendees)

o SIGAPL Software Library

    New Name, New Addresses:

    SIGAPL has made major changes in its software distribution system.
    The SIGAPL Software Library replaces what was formerly known as
    the "Software Exchange."  SIGAPL wants to make array processing
    software much more widely available and easy to get.  We want it
    to be decoupled from annual APL conferences, available year-round,
    unbundled by interpreter, and electronically free.  Thanks to Lee
    Dickey at the University of Waterloo, this software is now
    available at:

      o http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/apl_archives/apl/Welcome.html

   APL96 Conference Software Highlights:

       MERLIN  Two new AWS mind bogglers (Langlet, FR)
       GRAN    AWS []G Graphics (Buzin, RU)
       NFILES  W3 Long file names, National Characters (Glantz, SE)
       APL2OS2TAPL2/2 Tutorial for OS/2 (Jizba, US)
       APLSE   Free APL*PLUS v10 Interpreter (Manugistics/APL2000)
       LRNAPLSEAPLSE Tutorial&  Documentation (Holt, US)
       UNLOCK-DUnlock locked fns in any small AWS (Holt, US)
       SL-GuideHow to add to the SIGAPL Software Library

   SIGAPL Software Guidelines:

       The SIGAPL Software Library (SL) is the premier venue for APL,
       J, and other array-oriented authors to display their programming
       ideas and skills, and for vendors to showcase their demos and
       products.  APL and J software authors and vendors are invited
       to send their material on a 3.5″ DOS disk to:

         Lee Dickey, Mathematics Department
         University of Waterloo
         Waterloo  Ontario
         Canada    2NL 3G1

         Tell him that it's for the Software Library.  You may send your
         software at *any* time of the year.  FTP upload is available
         on demand.  Write to Lee Dickey at [e-mail]

         SIGAPL's updated Software Library guidelines are:

         o Include an ASCII file (call it WSNAME.TXT) to describe what
         the software does, and what hardware and software is needed
         to use it.  English is preferred, and other languages are
         welcome.

         o Think electronically.  Your software needs to be packaged
         as a stand-alone product for electronic distribution.
         Good documen- tation adds real value to your software.

         o Put all of your material in one single .ZIP file for easy
         FTPing.

         o Include any needed copyright permissions.  Copyrighted
         software can't be distributed without permission.

         o If possible, provide APL software in both its original
         form and as an APLACSCII file.  APLASCII software (v1.4)
         is available for all major APLs at the electronic sources
         listed above.

         o Check your software for viruses.  Archive.waterloo.ca will
         also check your software for viruses.

         o Authors should pay special attention to the quality, usefulness,
         and documentation of their work, and should include their name
         and address (including email).

         o Significant improvements and major updates of prior SL
         software are welcome.


(8)   Q: How do I get book Y?
A: Sources of Publications/Books

   o APL Book Sales [1/2002; seems to be out of service 2/2004?]
   operated by Robert G. Brown
   On-Line at
   http://www.apl-books.com, or
   APL Book Sales
   6749 South Westnedge Avenue
   Suite K-288
   Portage, Michigan
   USA 49002
   email: [e-mail]
   FAX: [phone]

   o APL Quote Quad
   Association for Computing Machinery
   (address below)

   o  BestWebBuys is a commercial site with a list of programming books
and specifically APL books available [11/2006]:
http://www.bestwebbuys.com/Programming_Languages-General-books.html
bestwebbuys programming languages link
http://www.bestwebbuys.com/Programming_Languages-General-N_10006038-books.html
bestwebbuys APL link

   o Dick Holt
   An email catalog of software for APL*PLUS, APL Special Edition
   Freeware, on-screen APL lessons and docs, plus many APL books is
   available upon request from Dick Holt,
   email:[e-mail]

   o EducAPL
   1120 Ave du Parc
   Quebec PQ
   CANADA G1S2W7

   o Renaissance Data Systems [seems dead 11/2006]
   All books on APL and J in print
   P.O.Box 313, Newtown, CT 06470, USA
   email: [e-mail]
   http://www.aplbooks.com

   o Past proceedings of the "APL as a Tool of Thought" conferences
   are available from NY/SIGAPL.


(9)   Q: What good APL books exist?
A: Reference Books

References - books mentioned on the net or that someone has recomended,
not all of which are available:

For another list online see:
http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/apl_archives/apl/bibliography/index.htmlNot fully working yet [11/2006]


   o APL"nn" Conference Proceedings - The annual ACM/SigAPL conference
      proceedings, published yearly from 19?? (APL??) to date (APL96)
      as an issue of APL Quote Quad; replace nn by the appropriate last
      two digits of the year.

   o Ajay Askoolum, "System Building with APL + WIN,"
      Wiley, ISBN: 0-470-03020-8, August 2006. Available at
      http://www.amazon.com/System-Building-APL-WIN-RSP/dp/0470030208
      and other sources.

   o Brown et. al. "APL2 at a Glance," Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-038670-7.

   o T. Budd, "An APL Compiler," Springer-Verlag.

   o Maurice Dalois, "Introduction to APL*PLUS PC,"
      available from EducAPL, US$30, US$10 for overseas shipping.

   o J. Ever and C. Fair, "Guidelines for APL Systems,"
      DPD 22 IBM 037301, March 1976.

   o Gilman and Rose, "APL - An Interactive Approach,"  Wiley,
      ISBN 220-471-30022-5.

   o Ulf Grenander, "Mathematical Experiments on the Computer,"
      Academic Press, 1982, ISBN 0-12-301750-5.

   o Kent Haralson, Useful APL Defined Functions, IBM Technical
      Report, TR 00.2409, Feb. 8 1973.

   o Timothy Holls, "APL Programming Guide," IBM G320-6103, 1978, and
      G320-6735, 1981, (out of print?).

   o IBM, "APL2 Programming: Language Reference"
      (Version 2, SH21-1061; Version 1, SH20-9227 (DOS only)).

   o IBM, "The APL Handbook of Techniques", IBM publication number
      S320-5996, April 1978.  Includes routines for multi-precision
      integer and float operations.

   o The IBM System Journal, V. 30, No. 4 (1991); Special Issue
      Devoted to APL.

   o IBM online references: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/apl/library.html

   o A.D. Falkoff, K.E Iverson, E.H Sussenguth, "A formal description
      of System/360,"
      The IBM System Journal, V. 3, No. 3 (1964)

   o K. E. Iverson, A Programming Language, Wiley, 1962.

   o K. E. Iverson, Algebra : an algorithmic treatment, APL Press 1977, Copyright 1972 by Addison Wesley, Preliminary Edition entitled "Elementary Algebra" Copyright 1971 by IBM Corporation.

   o K. E. Iverson, Elementary analysis, APL press 1976, Preliminary Edition "Elementary Functions" Copyright 1974 by IBM Corporation ISBN 0-917326-01-6

   o K. E. Iverson, An introduction to APL for Scientists and Engineers, APL Press 1976, First published by IMB Corporation as Technical Report No 320-3019 March 1973 - ISBN 0-917326-04-0

   o K. E. Iverson, APL in exposition, APL Press 1976, First published by IBM Corporation as Technical Report No 320-3010 March 1973 - ISBN 0-917326-02-4.

   o K. E. Iverson, Introduction To APL, (1984-APL Press Palo Alto)  ISBN 0-917326-14-8.

   o K. E. Iverson, "A personal view of APL," IBM Systems Journal,
      Vol. 30, No. 4, 1991.

   o K. E. Iverson, Concrete Mathematics Companion.

   o S. Kamin,  "Programming Languages: An Interpreter-Based
      Approach," contains (among other things) toy implementations of
      Lisp, APL, Scheme, SASL, CLU, Smalltalk, and Prolog,
      Addison-Wesley, 1990, ISBN 0-201-06824-9.

   o Bernard LEGRAND, "Les APL Etendus," Masson, Paris, 1994. An
      introduction to modern APL (French).

   o Jon McGrew, "An Introduction to APL2," IBM (SH20-9229).

o James A. Mason, "Learning APL: An Array Processing Language,"
     Harper&  Row Publishers Inc., New York, 1986, ISBN 0-06-044243-3 260 pp.

   o Peelle, APL an Introduction, Holt, Rinehart&  Winston,
      ISBN 0-03-004953-9.

   o Reiter&  Jones, APL with a Mathematical Accent, Brooks/Cole
      ISBN 0-534-12864-5, (now being distributed by Chapman&  Hall).

   o C. Reiter, Fractuals Visualization and J, Iverson Software, Inc,
      1995 ISBN 1-895721-11-3.

   o Adrian Smith, "APL, A Design Handbook for Commercial Systems,"
      Wiley series in information processing,
      Wiley&  Sons, 1982,  ISBN 0-471-10092-7.

   o D. Stiers, M.J. Goovaerts, J. De Kerf, "APL - The Language and its Actuarial Applications"

   o Norman D. Thomson, Raymond P. Polivka,  "APL2 in Depth,"
      Springer-Verlag, 1995, ISBN 0-387-94213-0  ($39.95).

   o Jerry R. Turner, "APL IS EASY!," Manugistics, 1993.

   o "SHARP APL Reference Manual," 2nd ed., Soliton Associates Limited
      PC Version: Iverson Software, 1993, ISBN 1-895721-07-5.

   o Jim Weigang, "APL Notes,"
      An introduction to APL that includes 16- and 32-bit APL*PLUS
      interpreters.  For orders and more information, see:
      http://www.chilton.com/~jimw/aplnotes.html

   o "A Source Book in APL," APL Press, 1981, ISBN 0-917326-10-5.

   o "J Phrases," Iverson Software, 1996, ISBN 1-895721-12-1

   o "Exploring Math", Iverson Software, 1996, ISBN 1-895721-13-X

   o "J Primer," Iverson Software, 1996, ISBN 1-895721-14-8


(10)   Q: What user groups exist?
A: User groups

Note that information on officers may be somewhat
out of date.

      ACM/SIGAPL
      Association for Computing Machinery / Special Interest Group on
      APL, international membership.
      Quarterly journal Quote Quad.  Chapter groups around the country.
         Association for Computing Machinery
         1515 Broadway
         New York, NY 10036
         Tel: [phone]
         email  [e-mail]

                              CALL FOR PAPERS [8/30/2005]
                               APL QUOTE QUAD

The next issue of APL Quote Quad is being designed. Prospective authors
are encouraged to submit papers on any of the usual subjects of
interest related to Array-Processing Languages (APL, APL2, J, and so
forth). Submitted papers, in Microsoft Word (.doc), Rich Text Format
(.rtf), Openoffice format (.scw), Latex (.tex) or Acrobat (.pdf)
should be addressed to
                              Manuel Alfonseca
                          [e-mail]
with copy to:
                              Antonio Annibali
                        [e-mail]
                              and Mario Sacco
                          [e-mail]

Care must be taken to make the submitted papers self-contained,
eg. if they require special APL typesettings. The tentative time limit
for the new material is September 30th, 2005.

      APLBUG [10/15/2000]
      APL Bay Area Users Group, Northern California ACM SIGAPL
      Meets monthly, regular newsletter, $20/yr.
         Chairman:Chuck Kennedy
            [phone]
            [e-mail]
         Secretary/Treasurer:Curtis Jones
            228 South 15th Street
            San Jose, CA 95112-2150
            [e-mail]
         Newsletter editor:Chuck Kennedy

      BACUS
      Belgian APL CAM Users Society
      APL CAM Journal (4 issues / year in French, Dutch, English) and
      other publications. fee: 500 BEF
         c/o Joseph De Kerf
         Rooienberg 72
         B2570 Duffel BELGIUM
         tel.: [phone]

      BAA (11/1/98)
      BAA British APL Association, a specialist group of the British
      Computer Society, international membership.
      Quarterly journal VECTOR maintains a comprehensive vendor and product
      list. See the vector page for current information:
      http://www.vector.org.uk

      Chicago APL SIG
      Larry Mysz
         Chicago APL SIG
         836 Highland Drive
         Chicago Heights  IL  60411, USA
         email: [e-mail]

      Connecticut APL group
      Bob Pomeroy
         Mass Mutual Life
         1295 State Street
         Mail Drop F465
         Springfield  MA  01111 USA
         Tel: [phone] x2838

      Denmark
      APL Special Interest Group of the Danish Data Association (DDA) [4/2000]
         Helene Boesen
         email: [e-mail]

      Dutch APL User Group [perhaps defunct? 8/2010]
      APL Werkgroep Nederland
         President: Theo Zwart
            OASIS
            Lekstraat, 4
            NL3433 ZB Niewegein
            The NETHERLANDS
            Tel: [phone]
            Fax: [phone]
         Secretary: B. Smoor
            Dorpstraat 50
            4128BZ Lexmond
            The Netherlands
         Also contact: Eke Van Batenburg

   AFAPL  (1/2005)
      Association Francophone pour la promotion du langage APL
      Les Nouvelles d'APL (journal 4/year) and other publications in
      French. fee: 350 franch francs in France, 450 FF abroad, 2800 FF
      for firms.
         174, bd de Charonne
         75020 PARIS
         FRANCE
         Tel&  Fax: [phone])
      President:Jacques Bouchard
      General Secretary:Ludmila Lemagnen
      email: [e-mail]
      www: http://www.afapl.asso.fr

   APL Germany [10/2010]
         c/o Dr. Reiner Nussbaum
         Buchernerstr. 78
         D-69259 Mannheim, GERMANY
         Tel:  [phone]
         email: [e-mail]
         web: http://apl-germany.de


   Groupe APL-J\Quebec (Quebec)[11/13/98]
      APL user group in Quebec (city)
         Gilles Kirouac, president
         Quebec, Canada
         email: [e-mail]

      Japan APL Association (JAPLA)
      Japanese APL/J interest group.
         Monthly meetings at every 3rd Saturday and hold study APL /J.
         Currently published JAPLA's journal 2 times / year.
         We welcome to our associate member who has an interest in APL/J.
         JAPLA's Office:
           c/o PRIDE
           Masujima Bldg.
           1-8-13, Higasi Gotanda,
           Shinagawa ku,
           Tokyo, 141  JAPAN
           Tel: [phone]
           Fax: [phone]
         Chairman: Dr. Tosio Nishikawa
           Laboratory National Chemical for Industry
           Higashi 1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305, Japan
         International Interface: Masafusa Yasuda
           2-4-10, Nogata,
           Nakano ku,
           Tokyo, 165, JAPAN
           Tel/Fax: [phone]
           email: [e-mail]

   APL Club Oesterreich
      APL Club Oesterreich
         Obere Donaustrasse 95
         A-1020 Wein,  AUSTRIA

      Rome/Italy ACM SIGAPL
            Casella Postale 14343
            00100 - Roma Trullo, ITALY
         Chair:Mario Sacco
            email: [e-mail]
         Additional contact:David Lanari
            Universita di Perugia
            Piaza dell'Universita 2
            Via G. Verga 30
            I06100 Perugia, ITALY
            email: [e-mail]

      NY/SIGAPL [revised 8/10/98]
      The New York City local chapter of ACM SIGAPL.
      Monthly meetings (ex July/August), newsletter "Big Apple APL",
      "APL as a Tool of Thought" miniconferences, approx. annual.
      Dues $35, $25 for ACM or ACM SIGAPL members, $10 for students.
         PO Box 2697
         New York,
         NY 10163-2697
         USA
      Chairman: David E. Siegel
         Tel: [phone] (work)
         email: [e-mail]
      Newsletter editor: Jim Boyd
         Tel: [phone]
         email: [e-mail]
      Membership chairman: Lynne C. Shaw
         Tel: [phone]
         email: [e-mail]

      Potomac ACM SIGAPL
      The Potomac ACM SIGAPL Chapter has been inactive since August 1996.
      For information about Potomac SIGAPL, send email to Dick Holt
      ([e-mail]).

      SEAPL
      South East APL Users' Group
      Doc Manges
      SEAPL Newsletter Editor
      email: [e-mail]
      Tel:  [phone]
         413 Comanche Trail
         Lawrenceville GA 30244
      Other contacts:
      Gordon and Stella Chamberlain
         Interprocess Systems, Inc.
         http://www.interprocess.com/[dead 12/2005]

      SOCAL-SIGAPL
      SOCAL-SIGAPL Southern California APL user's group. Inactive. [7/2004]
         Editor: Arthur J. Stasney
         Contacts:
         [e-mail] (Arthur J. Stasney)
         [e-mail] (Zdenek V. Jizba)

      SovAPL
      Alexander O. Skomorokhov
         P.O. Box 5061
         Obninsk - 5
         Kaluga Region
         RUSSIA
         email: [e-mail]
      Dr Alexander Skomorokhov
         Obninsk Institut of Nuclear Power/IATE
         Studgorod 1
         Obninsk
         Kaluga Region 249020
         RUSSIA
         Tel: [phone]
         Fax: [phone]
         email: [e-mail]

      Suomen APL
      Suomen APL-yhdistys ry (Finn APL Association) about 4 informal
      newsletters/year, mainly in Finnish, one English issue/year.
      Membership fees,per year: 100 Fmk (about 20 $). (March 1998)
      Address: Box 1005, 00101 Helsinki, Finland
      Chair: Timo Korpela (1998)
              The Central Pension Security Institute
              SF-00065 Elaketurvakeskus, Finland
              Tel: [phone], Fax: [phone]
              http://www.pyr.fi/apl/index.htm

      SWAPL
      SWAPL -- SouthWest APL Users' Group
         Membership fees, per year USA$12
         Non-USA postal supplement$6

         c/o Stuart Yarus (newsletter editor)
         P.O. Box 210367
         Bedford, TX 76095  U.S.A.
         [phone]; [phone]
         Compuserve:   73700,2545
         Internet:     [e-mail]

   SwedAPL
   Chairman is Christer Ulfhielm.
         c/o Novator Consulting Group AB
         Svardvagen 11C
         S-182 33 Danderyd
         Sweden
         Tel: [phone]
         Fax: [phone]
         email: [e-mail] (Christer Ulfhielm)

   Swiss APL User(s) Group
         Hans Steffen
         Swiss APL User Group
         c/o Federal Statistical Office
         CH3003 Berne
         SWITZERLAND
         Fax: [phone]
         See also:
         Dr. Hanspeter Bieri
         Institut fur Informatik
         Universitat Berne
         Langgasstrasse 51
         CH3012 Bern
         SWITZERLAND
         Tel: [phone]
         Fax: [phone]
         email: email:[e-mail]
         email: [e-mail]

      Sydney APL Users Group
      Newsletter (with contributions from Melbourne group): "Epsilon"
      Acting President and Treasurer: Nick Laletin, Jr.
      PO Box 1511
      Macquarie Centre,
      North Ryde 2113 Australia
      Tel: [phone]
      Fax: [phone]
      Secretary: Erik Nielson
      Tel: [phone]

      Toronto ACM APL SIG
      Toronto ACM APL SIG  [8/2007]
      http://www.torontoapl.ca
      Chair:      Dan King
      email: danking(at)sympatico(dot)ca
      Secretary:  Richard Procter email: rjp(at)aplborealis(dot)com


(11)   Q: What's the latest  APL conference?
A: Conferences

NY/SIGAPL
     APL as a Tool of Thought
     Held Yearly in NY
     Last Held: 31 January 1998

The APL2000 Customer Conference
    The 2000 APL2000 Customer Conference
        http://www.apl2000.com/2008UserConference.php

The Annual ACM SigAPL Conference
    APL2002: Array Processing Languages Lore, Problems and Applications [7/2002]
      July 22-25, 2002
      Madrid, Spain
      For information see http://www.apl2002.com

Previous ACM SigAPL Conferences
    APL2001: An Arrays Odyssey, June 25-28, 2001,
    Yale University, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
    http://www.acm.org/sigAPL,
    http://www.acm.org/sigapl/apl2001

    APL Berlin 2000: The 2000 International Conference on Array Programming Languages
    Think Arrays in a Great City, July 24-27, 2000 - Berlin, Germany
    http://stat.cs.tu-berlin.de/APL-Berlin-2000
    APL99: The 1999 International Conference
    on all Array Programming Languages
    August 10-14, 1999 - University of Scranton, Scranton,
    Pennsylvania, USA
    See the ACM SIGAPL website, or subscribe to the APL99 mailing list.
    You can subscribe by sending email to [e-mail] with
    "Subscribe APL99-Info Your Name" in the BODY of the msg (without the
    quotes).  You will be requested to confirm your subscription.  You
    will receive an automatic welcome msg and updated information as it is
    available.

    Previous conference proceedings are available from ACM as issues of
    APL Quote Quad.

SIGAPL Software Library
     All Conference Packages, for all years, will be available
    from SIGAPL and the Waterloo Archives at
    http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/apl_archives/apl/Welcome.html[partially back 3/2006]


(12)   Q: How do I pass APL functions from one APL to another?
A: Migration of applications

Different APL vendors store workspaces in completely different
formats. This has greatly reduced sharing of functions among users,
and made it difficult for users to migrate between vendors and even
between machines. Here there are some options -

   o Use the Workspace Interchange Standard (WSIS), documented in the
       ISO standard. This has been partially implemented by various
       vendors. For example Manugistics (STSC) uses an SLT workspace to
       do the reading/writing.

   o Use the IBM )in and )out .atf files (documentation?)  Here are
       some concrete instructions, courtesy of Eke van Batenburg,

       You only port APL, no GUI, no file I/O, no graphics, no locked
       objects. The following recipees use (arbitrary choosen) filename
       TRANSW.ATF on floppy as intermediate. "<>" means "next line".

         o Macintosh APL68000 export to floppy:
         []MOUNT'Untitled'<>  )OUT 0 TRANSWS
         In finder, change file name to "TRANSWS.ATF"

         o Macintosh APL68000 import from floppy:
         In finder, change file name to "TRANSWS" (without ".ATF"
         extension!!!)
         []MOUNT'Untitled'<>  )IN 0 TRANSWS Problems:
         "INVALID FILE" can mean "SYMBOL TABLE FULL" (check ")SYMBOLS"
         and increase them to 1000) or comment lines in file (remove
         all lines beginning with "*" using any editor and try again).

         o Atari APL68000 export to floppy:
         []MOUNT 'A:'<>   )OUT 0 TRANSWS

         o Atari APL68000 import from floppy
         []MOUNT 'A:'<>   )IN 0 TRANSWS
         Problems: same as in point 2.

         o IBM APL2/PC export to floppy:
         )HOST A:<>   )OUT TRANSWS

         o IBM APL2/PC import from floppy:
         )HOST A:<>   )IN TRANSWS
         Problems: none experienced upto now

         o IBM mainframe export to floppy:
         start APL with "APL2 CASE(2)" (necessary for underscored
         conversion)
         )CLEAR<>  )COPY workspacetobeported (NOT LOAD!!!!)
         )OUT TRANSWS<>  )CLEAR<>  )IN TRANSWS<>  )OUT TRANSWS
         (yes, 2x seems to work, 1x sometimes gives gibberish, I don't know why)
         Download ....APLTF.TRANSWS to floppy, rename to TRANSWS.ATF
         Problems: if you download with Kermit: set TEXTMODE OFF and
         set file TYPE BINARY

         o IBM mainframe import from floppy
         I have no experience with this, but I suppose:
         Upload TRANSWS.ATF to file ...APLTF.TRANSWS
         )IN TRANSWS

         o APL2000 APL+DOS, APL+UNIX, APL+Win export to floppy:
         ]OUT A:TRANSWS.ATF

         o APL2000 APL+DOS, APL+UNIX, APL+Win import from floppy:
         ]IN A:TRANSWS.ATF
         Problems: Different from IBM or APL68000 or "extended standard"
         are:
         "A B C[2]" is B, partioned enclose, squeezed quad,
         monadic ",[1.5]", take with axis and scalar functions with axis.

         o Dyalog APL:
         im/export functions have since several years a bug that thinks
         that your recordsize is wrong. If you manage to correct only
         this, it seems to work fine.

         Updates:
         o APLX reportedly provides )IN and )OUT commands compatible with
         APL2/PC and APL2/370.
         o NARS2000 also supports migration through .atf files
         written out by )OUT and read in by )IN.

   o Write the functions/data out to ASCII files using some sort of
       transliteration scheme (see 11). This has the advantage over
       (1) that the files are human-readable and editable.
   o VisualAPL from APL2000 provides two simple options for importing
   APL code from legacy APL's:
           o Select the APL code in the source APL's session and
           Paste Special it into VisualAPL in Microsoft Visual Studio
           2005/2008.
           o  An ActiveX component is provided with VisualAPL to en
           masse convert the legacy APL code to Unicode and store it in
           a text file which can be used by VisualAPL.
     VisualAPL does not use a proprietary workspace format for storing
     APL code, instead it stores APL code in Unicode text files which
     can be run as interpreted APL scripts or as compiled APL .Net
     classes using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/2008. VisualAPL Unicode
     text files can also be directly compiled without Visual Studio
     using the command line compiler provided with the Microsoft .Net
     framework.
     VisualAPL does not use a proprietary APL 'session', but instead
       uses the mainstream Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/2008 IDE
       [Interactive Development Environment].

All schemes suffer from the basic incompatibility between APL
vendors. This comes from extensions to standard ISO APL in several
areas:

   o Different built in functions - the quad functions. This includes
       file IO, graphics etc. Also the (mostly obsolete) ibeam
       functions.
   o Generalized arrays - boxes versus nests. A major fight in the
       community for at least the last 10 years. Unresolved.
   o User defined operators - not all implementations allow this.
   o Multivalent functions - not all implementations allow this.

Each instance of the above requires someone who knows both
implementations to rewrite the code. Hence only ISO APL is easily
portable.


(13)
Q:How do I write APL using only ASCII?
A: Writing APL in ASCII

Almost all vendors have provided ways to enter APL from non-APL
terminals. They took forms such as @BOX for example. For some reason
however, they all used different symbol sets and different
transliterations. Hence all are incompatible. Various users, seeing
the advantage of this approach versus the WSIS have tried their
hands.

I there are several separate issues: writing an APL character, writing
APL data, writing APL functions, and writing out a whole workspace.

Approaches for APL characters :

    o Jim Weigang has proposed a verbose version that is probably the
    current standard.
http://www.chilton.com/~jimw/a2apapr1.html
    Example: s {<-} +/ {rho} , a
    Transliteration programs for many APL's are available at
http://www.chilton.com/~jimw/a2ardme.html
[this link works, but the program links point to inaccessible parts of
waterloo... this currently gets to real programs:
http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/apl_archives/apl/software-library/apl95/]

    o My own approach is a bit more terse - see aplc, symbols3v1.txt on my home page
    Example: s  .is + / .ro , a

    o William Chang ([e-mail])
    has proposed a J-ish verion called APL!
    Example: s<- +/ ? , a

Approaches for  objects:
    o John Mitloehner ([e-mail])
    has proposed a PP scheme for this that includes data and functions.
    See his article at APL92. Code for various APLs is available at
    waterloo. Example:

    @begin function NUB
       R@is NUB X
       R@is ((X@iota X)= @iota @rho X)/X
    @end function

    Code is also available for incorporation of APL into latex
    documents. See J. Mitlohner (1992), Porting APL Programs via ASCII Transliteration. APL Quote Quad, 23(1):148-155.

     o Jim Weigang proposes the more familiar "Del editor" output
     format. Sample code for this translator is available in this
     format.



(14)
Q:What about Unicode?
A: Writing APL in Unicode
This section needs some work
Unicode (http://www.unicode.org/) was
conceived as a way of storing data in any of the worlds
languages. This includes APL. Most modern computer OS seem to support
this. Most modern APLs natively support unicode now. Of course fonts
are needed, and programs that can display/interact with the data.
Most (all?) fonts are incomplete, as there are a lot of glyphs need to
represent everything, so of course many don't include all APL
characters (or Devanagari, Tibetan,...).

o  Phil Chastney has written an article and included a Unicode font
with APL characters
http://www.vector.org.uk/resource/simp2.htm
o   Markus Triska has some notes on APL/Unicode at
http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0225855/unicapl/unicapl.html
Included there is an apl.el file for Emacs, that allows entering unicode
charaters using apl-ascii.
o  Adrian Smith's unicode font apl385 along with other information
   and fonts is available at http://www.vector.org.uk/resource/index.htm.




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