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- Subject: Promoting APL2
- Message-ID: <168417F7D.JOHNSON2@vm.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 14:03:57 GMT
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- Organization: Purdue University
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- Several of us in the Computing Center at Purdue are interested in promoting
- the use of APL2. It seems as though a language of APL's power and flexibility
- should be more widely used at a large research university like Purdue.
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- We currently have IBM's APL2 Version 2 Release 1 installed on our IBM 3090.
- The availability of personal computer emulators supporting APL, X-window
- terminals, and the widespread use of postscript capable laser printers
- make it possible to handle the APL2 character set in an almost routine
- fashion. This would seem to remove one of the main impediments to the
- increased use of APL, and provide a new window of opportunity to increase
- its usage.
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- We have planned a newletter article and an APL short course for this fall.
- As well, we are utilizing several items from the Waterloo archive, including
- APL2Tex and the Postscript APL font.
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- We are interested in any help (or brickbats) you might provide on this
- subject. Do you have any suggestions on how to encourage APL use in an
- academic environment? How are you using APL in your teaching or research?
- Do you know of APL workspaces that would be available in the public domain
- or for sale that might encourage APL usage? Do you think the mainframe is an
- appropriate platform today on which to encourage APL use?
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- Thanks for your help,
-
- Will Johnson
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- Will Johnson Systems Programmer
- Purdue University Computing Center Internet: johnson@mace.cc.purdue.edu
- 1408 Math Building Room 236 Bitnet: johnson@purccvm
- West Lafayette, IN 47907-1408 GTE: (317) 494-1787
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