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- From: cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne)
- Subject: Source Code of 6.??
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.200013.5549@csi.uottawa.ca>
- Keywords: GCC, ReadLine Interface
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- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Ottawa
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 20:00:13 GMT
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- I compiled the latest source code edition of J (6.2, I believe it is?
- It's at home, so I can't check offhand) on my Atari ST, with no great
- difficulties. Ran a bunch of the tests, and while I wasn't able to
- browse them in TOO much detail, they seemed to do what they were
- expected to. Lots of rank errors, and the likes, where illegal
- expressions were tested.
-
- What I was wondering is:
- Past editions of the Atari version of J have typically had (I think)
- the GNU Readline package linked in, so that emacs-like keybindings can
- be used to edit current and past command lines. It's not 100% clear
- how I'd link it in.
-
- Do I need one of the "famous" books? Or does someone know offhand
- which functions need to get replaced?
-
- A while back, I'd looked at the source code, and thought that it was
- written in Obfusticated C. In looking again, I think I was wrong. It
- just LOOKS confusing, and that's probably a function of J being a
- fairly complex language.
-
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