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- From: 6035230@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM (Charles Schulz)
- Subject: Re: Looking for good APL2 book
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 11:48:05 PST
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- ------------------------- Original Article -------------------------
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
- From: Mike Kent <70530.1226@CompuServe.COM>
- Subject: Re: Looking for good APL2 book
- Message-ID: <930124030932_70530.1226_DHP58-1@CompuServe.COM>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 03:09:33 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.065531.22302@Princeton.EDU>,
- lardieri@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Stephen Lardieri) writes:
-
- >> I would like to learn the APL2 language and am looking for
- >> recommendations on a good book to buy. I would prefer a book that
- >> does not assume I will be using one particular computer system.
- >> ...
- >> I will be using APL2 1.3.0 on an IBM 3090 ... I will eventually be
- >> using STSC APL on a PC ...
-
- "APL2 at a Glance", by Brown et. al. is pretty good at an elementary
- level, which is fortunate as it's the only general introduction to APL2
- that I know of. For more depth, the choice is clear (to me): the IBM
- APL2 Language Reference. ...
-
- END---------------------- Original Article -------------------------
-
- More detail and contact info for APL2 books:
-
- Renaissance Data Systems -- all APL books in print?
- PO Box 20023
- Park West Finance Station
- NY, NY USA 10025-1510
- (212) 864-3078
-
- SIGAPL book sale -- surplus supplies of various books
- Robert G. Brown, executive editor of Quote-Quad:
- 116 Bentley Avenue
- Old Bridge, New Jersey, USA 08857-1336
- Robert_Brown@MTS.cc.Wayne.edu
-
- IBM manuals to start with:
- - "An Introduction to APL2" (SH20-9229)
- - "APL2 Programming: Language Reference" (SH20-9227)
-
- Other books:
- - "APL2 at a Glance", Brown et. al., (ISBN 0-13-038670-7, Prentice Hall)
- - "APL: An Interactive Approach", Gilman & Rose (220-471-30022-5, Wiley)
-
- /Charles A. Schulz
- Lockheed Missiles & Space Co., Inc.
- Sunnyvale, California 94088-3504
- Tel: 408-742-5277
- E-mail: cschulz@lmsc.lockheed.com
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