Subject: APL language FAQ
Supersedes: <apl-faq_818187452@rtfm.mit.edu>
Date: 28 Dec 1995 18:43:42 GMT
Expires: 3 Feb 1996 18:38:36 GMT
Summary: Answers to common questions regarding the computer language APL.
X-Last-Updated: 1995/12/27

Archive-name: apl-faq 
Posting-Frequency: monthly

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

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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? What
    about APL keyboards/stickers?
3.  Can I compile APL?
4.  What tools exist for APL?
5.  Can I get an APL font for X?
6.  What information exists online about APL?
7.  How do I get book Y?
8.  What good APL books exist?
9.  What user groups exist?
10. What's the latest  APL conference?
11. How do I pass APL functions from one APL to another?
12. How do I write APL using only ASCII?


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New in this version: 
      APL96 Announcement
    
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(1)      APL sources 

APL\11 Freely available interpreter for UNIX (C), thanks to Michael
       Cain. Currently has some bugs. 
          ftp: waterloo, cshl
          E-mail: mcain@advtech.uswest.com.  

APL.68000 (Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, IBM RS/6000, Mac level I/II,
           add in board for IBM pc's, PowerMac): 
     In North America:
        Spencer Organization
        24 Wampum Road
        Park ridge, NJ  USA  07656
        Phone: +1-201-307-9099, Fax: +1-201-307-9404
     For the rest of the world:
.MicroAPL Limited
.South Bank Technopark
.90 London Road, 
.London .UK    SE1 6LN
        Phone: +44-171-922-8866    Fax: +44-171-928-1006
        E-mail: microapl@microapl.demon.co.uk
        E-mail: microapl@applelink.apple.com

APL92 (Mac, system 7.1):
        ftp to mars.emse.fr or ftp.emse.fr, look in /pub/apl
        Jean-Jacques Girardot
        School Mines 
        St-Etienne, France
        girardot@cambur.emse.fr

APROL (Scheme/J mix):   
        ftp to ariel.cs.trinity.edu and cd into pub.
        For further information
        E-mail: jhowland@ariel.cs.trinity.edu

CAPL (IBM PC) shareware interpreter
        Thomas Glen Smith
        3154 W. Shady Lane
        Neenah, WI 
        E-mail: 76207.3343@CompuServe.com
        ftp: waterloo

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

Dyalog APL Version 7.1 (Unix, APL/W for Windows):
        Source:
           Dyadic Systems Ltd.
           Riverside View, Basing Road, Old Basing, Basingstoke
           Hampshire RG24 7AL, UK
           Tel: 011-44-(1256) 811125  Fax: (1256) 811130
           Email     : support@dyadic.com
           CompuServe: 100136,1473
        US Distributor:
           Beautiful Systems Inc. 
.   308 Old York Road, Suite 5                       
.   Jenkintown, PA 19046 USA                      
.   Tel: (215) 886-2636        Fax: (215) 886-4888 
.   Compuserve: 73567,1016 

           MIPS Software Development Inc (out of business?)
           33493 W. Fourteen Mile Rd
           Suite 10
           Farmington Hills, Mich 48331
           Tel: (313) 661-5000, Fax:  (313) 661-5826

FRS/APL2000 (formerly Manugistics (formerly STSC)): APL*PLUS/PC,
     APL*PLUS II, APL*PLUS III, (DOS, Windows, NT, Unix, VMS),
     Statgraphics, APLSE for DOS (free*)
        APL2000
        2115 East Jefferson St.
        Rockville, Maryland, USA  20852
        Phone: 800-592-0050, 301-984-5000, 301-984-5412, 301-984-5123  
        Fax: 301-984-5094 
        e-mail: support: answer@manu.com 
                sales: aplsales@manu.com 
                international: intl@manu.com
        BBS: 301-984-5222

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
           Phone: (916) 938-4684, Fax: 916/938-3229
           Email: Cherlin@snowcrest.net
        In the UK:
           Anthony Camacho 
           Co-Chairman, I-APL Limited
           11 Auburn Road
           Redland
           Bristol BS6 6LS    UK

IBM APL2 for PC DOS, OS/2, RISC System/6000, Sun Solaris,
        and IBM mainframes, plus TryAPL2 for PC DOS (free*)
          APL Products
          IBM Santa Teresa, Dept. M46/D12
          555 Bailey Avenue
          San Jose, California 95141, USA
          Phone: 408-463-APL2 (408-463-2752), FAX: 408-463-4488
          E-mail: apl2@vnet.ibm.com
          CompuServe: go IBMAPL2 
          IBMMAIL: USIB6JN8
.  ftp:  ftp.software.ibm.com (ps.boulder.ibm.com)
          (look in ps/products/apl2)
          http://www.torolab.ibm.com/ap/apl/apl2.html
        From 1-800-IBM-CALL or 1-800-3-IBM-OS2
          APL2 for PC DOS:
            In North America, 5799-PGG, PRPQ RJ0411, Part No. 6242936
            In Europe, Program Product 5604-260, Part No. 38F1753
          APL2 for OS/2, Entry Edition, is part number 89G1556
          APL2 for OS/2, Advanced Edition, is part number 89G1697
          AIX APL2/6000 is Program Number 5765-012
          APL2 for Sun Solaris is Program Number 5648-065
          APL2 for CMS/TSO is Program Number 5688-228
          APL2 Application Environment for CMS/TSO is Program Number
            5688-229

IBM APL2 for the P/370 (Mainframe VM/ESA on a PS/2)
          Interprocess Systems, Inc.
          11660 Alpharetta Hwy., Suite 455
          Roswell, GA  30076  USA
          404-410-1700, FAX: 404-410-1773
          E-mail: 70373.2676@compuserve.com


J (for Windows, DOS, Linux, Mac, Sun) & APLIWIN (for Windows), 
      Produced by:
        Iverson Software Inc.
        33 Major Street
        Toronto, Ontario, Canada  M5S 2K9
        Voice: 416-925-6096  Fax: 416-488-7559  
      Distributed by:
        Strand Software 
        19235 Covington Court
        Shorewood, Minnesota 55331, USA
        Tel: 612-470-7345   Fax: 612-470-9202
        Email: Chris Burke:        cdburke@aol.com
               Anne Faust:         amfaust@aol.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 
      (914) 682-0377
      ftp://ftp.ens.fr/pub/mac/hqx/                  
      ftp://ftp.uwtc.washington.edu/pub/Mac/Programming/Languages/

Sharp APL (MVS, AIX, SunOS; Viewpoint APL 4GL):
        Soliton Associates Limited (Formerly I. P. Sharp Associates)
        44 Victoria St, Suite 2100
        Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5C 1Y2
        Phone: (416) 364-9355  Fax: (416) 364-6159
        E-mail: sales@Soliton.COM

        Soliton Associates, Inc. 
        1100 University Ave., Suite 111 
        Rochester, NY 14607 
        USA 
        Phone: (716) 256-6466  Fax: (716) 256-6469

        Soliton Associates Limited
        Groot Blankenberg 53
        1082 AC Amsterdam
        The Netherlands
        Tel: +31 20 646 4475,  Fax: +31 20 644 1206
        Email: ljh@soliton.com

Q'Nial:
       NIAL Systems Limited
       PO Box 1073
       Kingston, Canada 
       K7L 4Y5 
       Tel: (613) 542-6964 (800) 465-1798
       Fax: (613) 542-8277
       E-mail: ns@lqucis.queensu.ca
       URL: http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/home/nsl/info.html

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(2) Terminal Emulation

Chameleon TN3270 for Windows, networks, IBM 3179G and 3192G emulation,
SAA, APA graphics. 
     NetManage 
     10725 De Anza Blvd., Cupertino, CA 95014, U.S.A.  
     Phone: 408/973-7171
     Fax: 408/257-6405  
     E-mail: Donna@NetManage.com 

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. (800) 426-6283
          (206) 644-4010 in Washington State

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 (PC) 
     Digital Communications Associates, Inc.
     1000 Alderman Drive
     Alpharetta, Georgia 30201-4199 USA
     tel. (404) 442-4000

RUMBA (for 3270, APL and graphics)
     Wall Data
     17769 NE 78th Place
     Redmond WA 98052-4992
     206-883-4777

TN3270 (Macintosh) Not public domain, but may be freely distributed.
     Works with TCP/IP
     Anonymous FTP from BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (128.148.128.40):
        Distribution files are in the highest level directory.  Begin by
        retrieving the file $README.FIRST which describes the other files.
     Anonymous FTP from FTP.NCSA.UIUC.EDU (128.174.20.50):
        Distribution files are contained in the directory
        NCSA_Telnet/tn3270.  Same files as above above for 
        BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU.
     BITNET distribution from LISTSERV@BROWNVM:
        Send LISTSERV the command GET TN3270 PACKAGE.  GET LOCAL FILELIST
        for a complete list of available files.
     Mail order from Brown for $20 (check payable to Brown University):
        TN3270 Distribution
        Brown University Computer Store
        P.O. Box 1885
        Providence, Rhode Island 02912 USA
     Info -- the NCSA Telnet Digest subscription:
        request@ncsa.uiuc.edu.

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: (203) 432-6600   Fax: (203)-432-6165
     LISTSERV@YALEVM

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
     (604) 431-0727

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(2.1) 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, French Upgrade to SX80-0270 ........ SX80-0453
   APL2 Keycaps, Italian Upgrade to SX80-0270 ....... SX80-0454
   APL2 Keyboard Decals ..(about $13 for set of two). SC33-0604
   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: (602) 634-7515
   Fax: (602) 634-4620

Keyboard stickers
Manugistics
(see above address)

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(3) Compilers 

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

Manugistics compiler for IBM 370 APL*PLUS, documented in APL '85
     see Manugistics listing above, or
     E-mail: aplsales@manu.com

VSAPL to C conversion and compiler 
     Dr. Wai-Mee Ching
     Computer Science Department
     T. J. Watson Research Center
     P.O. Box 704
     Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
     Phone: 914-784-7748
     E-mail: ching@watson.ibm.com

Experimental:

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?)

My current modification (3.8) of Budd's older aplc:
     anonymous ftp to: 128.149.29.4   csi.jpl.nasa.gov
     or send mail to sam@kalessin.jpl.nasa.gov asking for it


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(4) Other tools for APL

IEDIT (APL2 editor), AFM file system, APL2 tools.
     Interprocess Systems, Inc.
     11660 Alpharetta Hwy, Suite 455
     Roswell GA 30076 USA
     404-410-1700, Fax: 404-410-1773
     E-mail: 70373.2676@compuserve.com

Insight Systems - 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.
     Insight Systems ApS
     Nordre Strandvej 119A
     DK-3150 Hellebaek
     Denmark
     Phone:   +45 42 10 70 22
     FAX:     +45 42 10 75 74
     insight@inet.uni-c.dk

SQL Auxiliary Processor for Dyalog APL for Windows (DDE)
     Lingo Allegro USA, Inc.
     6749 S.Westnedge Ave, Suite K-268
     Phone:    +1 312 203 4926
     Fax:      +1 708 459 8501
     Internet: 71303.3224@CompuServe.com
 
Computer Aided Instruction, for PC or mainframe IBM.  Also a newsletter.
     Zark Incorporated
     23 Ketchbrook Lane
     Ellington CT 06029 USA

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(5) APL fonts

Besides commercial products that come with the interpreters, there are:

1. fonts for TeX, laTeX, the X windows system, postscript, and
   truetype (windows) are available on waterloo.

2. Truetype fonts for windows are available from ISI and
   Manugistics.

3. 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)

4. 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).

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(6) Online information, free* APLs & WS

1. APL\BBS
     Sysop Dick Holt
     HRH Systems 
     3802 N. Richmond St.
     Arlington VA 22207

     (703) 528-7617,  1200-14400b (N-8-1), 24 hrs.

     Free email and many free files.  $US24/year subscription 
     for full service.  Comp.lang.apl echo.  Files for APL*PLUS, 
     IBM APL2/TryAPL2, ISI, Sharp, Dyalog, and I-APL.  On-screen
     APL lessons, cryptography, APL in French, APL Conference 
     Software, J, and much more.  Send $US2 for 100k on-disk 
     catalog of all BBS\APL files.  
 
2. Anonymous ftp servers:

     archive.uwaterloo.ca or watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (129.97.128.10)
        L.J. Dickey's collection. Current J distribution for many
        machines (and J source, including LinkJ), APL\11, APLSE, CAPL,
        IAPL, RatAPL, TryAPL, APL fonts, TeX macros and fonts, the
        toronto toolkit, some other WS, archives of comp.lang.apl, the
        APL standard, an Introduction to J, and this FAQ. These are in
        directories starting from directory languages/apl

     atmos.dar.csiro.au, in netcdf/hld
        Harvey Davies' stat.js for J7.

     cshl.org, in pub/bill/apl
        APL\11 modified for W. Chang's APL! keywords, fep, some
        comp.lang.apl discussions.
        
     csi.jpl.nasa.gov (128.149.29.4)
        The site for this FAQ, my version of the apl compiler (3.7),
        some scripts for J, LaTeX J language summary, J faq, APL92, my
        version of apl\11, modified for my keywords. See the directory
        pub/apl

     exaia.wu-wien.ac.at (137.208.15.202)
        some J sources, particularly for HP

     ftp.cs.ualberta.ca, pub/smillie/
        some reports by K. Smillie,
        "Some notes on introducing J with statistical examples"
        "What is J?" 

     ftp.debian.org Jv7 for Linux in
        debian/debian-current/binary/devel/j1-7-2.deb

     ftp.ips.cs.tu-bs.de 
        Some apl/J stuff, copy of the draft standard. In
        /ftp/ips/pub/...

     ftp.software.ibm.com, IBM APL2 site. Look in /ps/products/apl2

     gatekeeper.dec.com  
        The site of Committee Draft 1 of the APL ANSI/ISO standard
        (1/93) in:
           pub/plan/apl/cover.ps  (a cover letter)
           pub/plan/apl/aplcd1.ps (the main document)

     nova.cc.purdue.edu, cs.orst.edu
        some NEXT/J material: j.pkg.tar, Visage.pkg.tar

     ps.boulder.ibm.com, IBM APL2 site. Look in /ps/products/apl2

     wuvieai.wu-wien.ac.at (137.208.15.20)
.This mirror of the APL Archives on watserv1 may be more
.convenient for users in Europe.  Start in the directory
     ./pub/lang/apl 

3. WWW servers: 

        ACM SIGAPL - information about the ACM, SIGAPL, related
        organizations, conferences, Internet resources, and the APL
        White Pages. Maintained by Kirk Iverson.
        http://www.acm.org/sigapl/
        gopher://gopher.acm.org/11[the_files.sig_forums.sigapl]

        Stephen J. Halasz's APL Page.
        http://www.interaccess.com/users/sjhalasz/apl.htm

        APL Methods Home Page (under construction 3/9/95):
        http://www.secapl.com/aplmeth/top.html

        Toronto SIG - various information, back issues of the
        newsletter Gimme Arrays! 
        http://www.sigapl.mtnlake.com/sigapl/welcome.html

        IBM APL2 Home Page
        http://www.torolab.ibm.com/ap/apl/apl2.html

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

        Q'Nial
        http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/home/nsl/info.html

4. Mail servers

     listserv@listserv.unb.ca (listserv@unb.ca), in the list APL-L,
     archives of comp.lang.apl
     ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com - mail access to waterloo, gatekeeper

5. Mail servers/lists
     BITFTP@PUCC.BITNET - access to waterloo 

     Access to the APL-L on bitnet from the internet can be done via
     mail:
        To: listserv%UNBVM1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
        Subject: SUBSCRIBE APL-L
        SUBSCRIBE APL-L


     DyalogAPL        t-chan@u-aizu.ac.jp
                      for Dyalog users
     APL-ERS          APL-ERS@IRLEARN.BITNET
                      UCD APL Interest Group "virtually extinct"
     APL-L            APL-L@UNBVM1.BITNET, APL-L@UNB.CA
                      APL Language Discussion (mirror of comp.lang.apl)
     APLEDU-L         APLEDU-L@UNBVM1.BITNET
                      APL in Education
     plus of course the Potomac_sigAPL_announce@acm.org

6. Inquiries about the proposed ISO standard should be addressed to
   the mailing-list at 
      apl-stds@watmath.UWaterloo.CA (SC22 WG3 attendees)

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(7) Sources of Publications/Books

     APL Quote Quad
     Association for Computing Machinery
     (address below)

     EducAPL 
     1120 Ave du Parc 
     Quebec PQ 
     CANADA G1S2W7

     Renaissance Data Systems
     current catalog available for SASE ($.32) 
     P.O.Box 421, Georgetown, CT 06829  
     e-mail: shaw@ix.netcom.com 
     or call Ed Shaw  at the APL Group, Inc. at (203)762-3933 
    (Please do not ask for RDS)
old:
     PO Box 20023
     Park West Finance Station
     NY, NY  USA  10025-1510
     (212) 864-3078

     (SIGAPL book sale)
     Robert G. Brown
     116 Bentley Avenue
     Old Bridge, New Jersey, USA  08857-1336
     Robert_Brown@MTS.cc.Wayne.edu 

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 11. K. E. Iverson, A Programming Language, Wiley, 1962.
 
 12. K. Iverson, "A personal view of APL," IBM Systems Journal,
     Vol. 30, No. 4, 1991.

 13. K. Iverson, Concrete Mathematics Companion

 14. 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.

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

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

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

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

 19. C. Reiter, Fractuals Visualization and J

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

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

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

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

 24. Jim Weigang, "APL Notes," 
     Available from J. Weigang (includes APL*PLUS interpreter)
     68 Plateau Circle
     West Springfield, MA,  01089,   USA
     price: US$29 postpaid in US & Canada, US$38 overseas.

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

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(9) User groups - Note that information on officers may be somewhat
    out of date.

  1. 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: (212) 626-0500
        E-mail  acmhelp@acm.org

  2. APLBUG
     APL Bay Area Users Group, Northern California ACM SIGAPL
     Meets monthly, regular newsletter, $20/yr.
        Chairman:  Chuck Kennedy
              (408)241-5920
              75014.215@compuserve.com
              ckennedy@hooked.net
        Secretary/Treasurer: Curtis Jones
              228 South 15th Street
              San Jose, CA 95112-2150
              jonesca@vnet.ibm.com
        Newsletter editor:  George Mendonsa (?)
              73443.3373@compuserve.com
              ghwr19a@prodigy.com

  3. Belgian APL CAM Users Society (BACUS)
     APL CAM Journal (4 issues / year in French, Dutch, English) and
     other publications. fee: 500 Belgian F
        c/o Joseph De Kerf
        Rooienberg 72
        B2570 Duffel BELGIUM
        tel.: 32-15-31 47 24

  4. BAA British APL Association, a specialist group of the British
     Computer Society, international membership.  Quarterly journal
     VECTOR maintains a comprehensive vendor and product list.  NOTE:
     send official correspondence to the Secretary, newsletter
     correspondence to the journal editor.
     Chairman: Dr Alan Mayer,
        European Business Managment School,
        Swansea University,
        Singleton Park
        Swansea  SA2 8PP
        Tel: 44 1792 205678 x 4274
        E-mail; a.d.mayer@swansea.ac.uk
     Treasurer: Nicholas Small
        8 Cardigan Road
        London E3 5HU,  UK
        Tel: +44 181 980 7870
     Journal editor (Vector): Anthony Camacho
        11 Auburn Road, Redland
        Bristol  BS6 6LS, UK
        Tel: +44 117 9730036
        Email: acamacho@cix.compulink.co.uk
     Secetary : Sylvia Camacho
        (Address as for Anthony Camacho)

  5. Chicago APL SIG
     Larry Mysz
        Chicago APL SIG
        836 Highland Drive
        Chicago Heights  IL  60411, USA
        E-mail: 73040.3032@compuserve.com

  6. Connecticut APL group
     Bob Pomeroy
        Mass Mutual Life
        1295 State Street
        Mail Drop F465
        Springfield  MA  01111 USA
        Tel: +1 413 788 8411 x2838


  7. CPCUG APL SIG
     Capital PC User Group APL Special Interest Group
     Free monthly meetings
        51 Monroe Street, Plaza East Two
        Rockville, Maryland 20850-2421
        Tel: (301) 762-9372    FAX: (301) 762-9375
        CPCUG MIX (Member Information Exchange BBS): (301) 738-9060

  8. Denmark:  APL Special Interest Group of the Danish Data
     Association (DDA) (?)
        Per Gjerlof
        E-mail: d03per@vm2.uni-c.dk

  9. Dutch APL User Group ( APL Werkgroep Nederland )
.president: Theo Zwart
        OASIS
        Lekstraat, 4
        NL3433 ZB Niewegein
        The NETHERLANDS
        Tel: +31 3402 66336
        Fax: +31 3402 65844
        secr. B. Smoor
        Dorpstraat 50
        4128BZ Lexmond
        The Netherlands
        Also contact Eke Van Batenburg
        E-mail: sbqbeb@rulsfb.leidenuniv.nl

 10. Association Francophone pour la promotion du langage APL
     Les Nouvelles d'APL (journal 4/year) and other publications in
     French. fee: 300 French F 
        174, bd de Charonne - 75020 PARIS - FRANCE
        Tl. & Fax : (33)-1-43-56-31-79)
           old:
           160-162 rue Cardinet 
           F75017 Paris FRANCE
           tel.: 33-1-44 85 96 07
     President: Mr. Eric Lescasse
        E-mail: 70731.3233@compuserve.com

 11. APL-Club Germany
        c/o Dieter Lattermann
        Rheinstrasse 23
        D-69190 Walldorf, GERMANY
        Tel:  +49 6227 2003

 12. 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: 81-3-3280-0411
          Fax: 81-3-3280-0418
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: 81-3-3319-1956
          E-mail: myasuda@mix.or.jp


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

 14. Rome/Italy ACM SIGAPL
        Casella Postale 14343
        00100 - Roma Trullo, ITALY
        Chair:Mario Sacco
        E-mail: marsac@vnet.ibm.com
        Additional contact: David Lanari
        Universita di Perugia
        Piaza dell'Universita 2
        Via G. Verga 30
        I06100 Perugia, ITALY
        E-mail: david@ipguniv.bitnet

 15. Melbourne APL Users Group
        Contacts:   
        Harvey Davies  
        CSIRO Div Atm Res
        Private Bag No. 1
        Mordialloc, Victoria 3195, Australia
        Phone: +61 3 586 7574   E-mail: hld@dar.csiro.au 
        Moshe Sniedovich   
        E-mail: moshe@mundoe.maths.mu.oz.au

 16. NY/SIGAPL [revised 9/2/95]
     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: Phil Benkard
        Tel: +1 914-277-8344
        E-mail: benkard@aol.com
        Newsletter editor: Jim Boyd
        Tel: +1 914-941-9239
        E-mail: boyd@cloud9.net
        Membership chairman: Lynne C. Shaw
        Tel: +1 212-662-2406
        E-mail: lcshaw@ix.netcom.com


 17. Potomac ACM SIGAPL Chapter
     Free monthly meetings
     Dues: $25, $20 for ACM/ACMSIGAPL members, $10 for students
        c/o CPCUG APL SIG
        51 Monroe Street, Plaza East Two
        Rockville, Maryland 20850-2421
        Tel: (301) 762-9372    FAX: (301) 762-9375
        E-mail: Potomac_sigAPL_Chapter@acm.org    
        Finger: PotAPL@acm.org (for information, directions)
        MAILSERV@acm.org; subscribe potomac_sigapl_announce
        Directions and Calendar also available as Bulletins D and E on 
        the BBS\APL at 703-528-7617, 1200-14400b, 24 hrs

 18. Rochester, NY APL group 
     Gary Dennis
        Soliton Associates
        1100 University Ave,
        Rochester, NY 14607, USA
        E-mail: gsd@ipsalab.tor.soliton.com

 19. South East APL Users' Group (SEAPL)
     Doc Manges
     SEAPL Newsletter Editor
        413 Comanche Trail
        Lawrenceville GA 30244
     Other contacts:
     Gordon and Stella Chamberlain
        Interprocess Systems, Inc.
        11660 Alpharetta Hwy, Suite 455
        Roswell  GA  30076, USA
        Tel: +1 404 410 1700,
        Fax: +1 404 410 1773
        E-mail: 70373.2676@compuserv.com

 20. SOCAL-SIGAPL Southern California APL user's group.  Meets
     monthly, usually fourth Tuesday at Los Angeles City College.
     Regular newsletter, $15/year.
     Secretary-Treasurer: George D. Smith 
                          1001 Thistlegate Road 
                          Oak Park, CA 91301
                          e-mail  smitty9901@aol.com
                          phone: (818) 706-8203
     Editor:              Arthur J. Stasney
                          e-mail: astasney@alumni.caltech.edu 

 21. SovAPL
     Alexander O. Skomorokhov
       P.O. Box 5061
       Obninsk - 5
       Kaluga Region
       RUSSIA
       E-mail: askom@apl2.obninsk.su
     Dr Alexander Skomorokhov
       Obninsk Institut of Nuclear Power/IATE
       Studgorod 1
       Obninsk
       Kaluga Region 249020
       RUSSIA
       Tel: +7 084439 31463
       Fax: +7 095 2552225
       E-mail: askom@apl2.obninsk.su 

 22. 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 $)
     Address:  Box 1005, 00101 Helsinki, Finland
     Chair:    Eero Korpelainen (1992)
               University of Joensuu, 
               Department of Statistics, Box 111, 
               80101 Joensuu, Finland
               Telefax:  358-73-1513290
               E-mail:   ek@joyl.finujo.fi            

 23. 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.
        (817) 656 5896; (817) 577 0165
        Compuserve:   73700,2545
        Internet:     73700.2545@compuserve.com

 24. SwedAPL 
        (no longer correct?)
        c/o Gian Medri
        Box 16181
        S-103 24 Stockholm
        SWEDEN
        Tel: +46 8 96 09 47

 25. Swiss APL User(s) Group
        Hans Steffen
        Swiss APL User Group
        c/o Federal Statistical Office
        CH3003 Berne
        SWITZERLAND
        Fax: +41 31 382 27 95
        See also: 
        Dr. Hanspeter Bieri
        Institut fur Informatik
        Universitat Berne
        Langgasstrasse 51
        CH3012 Bern
        SWITZERLAND
        Tel: +41 31 65 86 81
        Fax: +41 31 65 39 65
        E-mail:bieri@iam.unibe.ch
        E-mail: si@ifi.unizh.ch

 26. 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: +61 02 427 1605
     Fax: (02) 257 6670
     Secretary: Erik Nielson  
     Phone: +61 2 257 5742

 27. Toronto ACM APL SIG 
      Meets the 4th monday of September through May, excluding
      December, Monthly newsletter Gimme Arrays! Attendance is free
      and membership is CAD 25 per year, CAD 5 for full time students.
      Chair: Ben Best <benbest@io.org> 416-862-3193
      Newsletter: Gaetan Godin/Randy McDonald <gaetgodi@godin.on.ca>
                                    <randy@godin.on.ca> 519-679-8290
      Treasurer: Eric Granz <egranz@ipsalab.tor.soliton.com> 416-784-8703
      Information Coordinator: Richard Procter <rjp@interlog.com> 
                                               416-651-4037
      P.O. Box 55
      Adelaide Street Post Office
      Toronto, Ontario, Canada  M5C 2J5
      http://www.sigapl.mtnlake.com/sigapl/welcome.html
        
 28. APL White Pages 
     A collection of names and e-mail adressess of those interested in
     APL. Currently 160 listings. To be listed send e-mail to 
        kbi@io.org (Kirk Iverson)
     with subject line "APL White Pages", and content one or more
     lines of the form
.real name = userid@subdomain.domain
     You will then get on the list, and be mailed the list
     itself. Multiple listings for an individual are allowed.


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(10) Conferences


  APL96: Designing the Future
  July 28, 1996 through August 1, 1996
  University of Lancaster, UK
  Sponsored by ACM/SIGAPL

  Invitation and Call for Participation (abridged)

  ACM/SIGAPL (The Special Interest Group on APL) is pleased to
  announce the convening of the 1996 International Conference on APL.
  The theme of the conference is Designing the Future.  This year, the
  focus will be on tools, techniques, technologies, and applications
  that bring APL to the leading edge of computer technology.

  The APL96 Program Committee seeks papers that showcase the place of
  array programming languages in the technological tools available for
  research, development, design, and delivery in any discipline.
  Papers focusing on APL, J, or other array programming languages are
  solicited.  Tracks with specific industry focus will provide to
  participants the opportunity to explore these tools in depth with
  colleagues sharing their interests.

  Submission

  Please notify either program chairman via e-mail or Fax of your
  intention to submit a paper by providing an abstract by November 30,
  1995.  Prospective authors will be given complete formatting
  instructions for draft and final paper submission.    

  Draft papers (not longer than 5000 words) are due no later than
  January 31, 1996.  To avoid mailing delays, submission by e-mail or
  fax is encouraged.  Notification of the program committee decision
  will be sent to authors by March 8, 1996.

  Camera-ready copy of final papers must be in the hands of the
  proceedings editor no later than April 15, 1996.  Editor James Boyd
  will assist authors with preparation of final, camera-ready copy
  from electronic text.  Authors of papers included in the proceedings
  should plan to present them at the conference.

  The APL96 Software Exchange: 
        
  SIGAPL invites you to send new and useful software to the APL96
  Software Exchange.  The Software Exchange is a good way to make
  your, or your firm's, skills and products more widely known. New GUI
  software is especially welcome.  Software from prior APL conferences
  is also welcome if it has been significantly improved or updated.

  Software received by April 30,1996 will be available to attendees at
  APL96. The conference package plus later submissions will be
  available by about October 1996 from SIGAPL, the BBS\APL, and via
  ftp at watserv1.uwaterloo.ca. Small files via UUENCODE, or further
  info, see addresses.  Software in APL, J, and related array
  languages is invited. English is preferred, and other languages are
  also welcome.  Include an ASCII read.me (lisez.moi, lis-mich.dok)
  file that briefly describes what the software does, and what
  software and hardware is needed to use it.  This year we want to try
  something new.  If possible, please also include an APLASCII (v1.4)
  version of any software that you submit (ftp APLASCII for your
  interpreter via watserve1.uwaterloo.ca).  You must include written
  permission to distribute any copyright software.  Without
  permission, we can't distribute copyright software.

  Program Committee: 
  Chairman: J. Philip Benkard, IBM (Retired) (USA)
      benkard@aol.com 
  Chairman: Adrian Smith, Causeway Graphical Systems (UK)
      100331.644@compuserve.com  
    Robert Bernecky, Snake Island Research, Inc. (Canada)
      bernecky@eecg.toronto.edu       
    James A. Brown, IBM Corp.(USA)
      aplbrown@vnet.ibm.com
    Robert G. Brown, Lingo Allegro, Inc. (USA)
      bob@acm.org
    David Eastwood, MicroAPL (UK)
      MicroAPL@microapl.demon.co.uk
    Garth Foster, Syracuse University (USA) 
      gfoster@cat.syr.edu
    Morten Kromberg, Insight Systems (Denmark)
      insight@inet.uni-c.dk
    Eric Lescasse, Uniware  (France)
      70731.3233@compuserve.com
    John Scholes, Dyadic Systems, Ltd. (UK)
      scholes@dyadic.com
    Lynne C. Shaw, Consultant (USA)
      shaw@acm.org
    Alan Sykes, European Business Mgmt School (UK)
      a.m.sykes@swansea.ac.uk

  Addresses for abstracts, draft papers, software exchange
  contributions, and other offers of participation:
  Philip Benkard: benkard@aol.com
  James Boyd:     boyd@cloud9.net
  Adrian Smith:  100331.644@compuserve.com
  Dick Holt (SWX): dick.holt@acm.org
  Fax: USA: (212)662-0913 or (914)277-7804
  Fax: UK: 4416 53 697719  
  Postal Service (USA)
  Papers
      J.P. Benkard 
      21B Heritage Hills
      Somers, NY 11111, USA 
  APL96 Software Exchange on 3.5" disk to:        
      Dick Holt
      3802 N. Richmond St. 
      Arlington VA 22207 USA.
Postal Service (UK) 
      Adrian Smith 
      Causeway Graphical Systems Ltd
      5 The Maltings
      Castlegate
      North Yorks Y017 ODP
      England UK 


  APL95 software exchange
  - The Conference Package, plus the APL95 Supplement, will be
    available by about October 1995 from SIGAPL, the BBS\APL,
    and the Waterloo archive.


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(11) 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 two main options -
 
   1. 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.

   2. Use the IBM )in and )out .atf files (documentation?)  Here are
      some concrete instructions, courtesy of Eke van Batenburg,
      <SBQBEB@rulsfb.LeidenUniv.nl>:

      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".
      1 Macintosh APL68000 export to floppy: 
        []MOUNT'Untitled'  <> )OUT 0 TRANSWS
        In finder, change file name to "TRANSWS.ATF"
      2 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).
      3 Atari APL68000 export to floppy:
        []MOUNT 'A:' <>  )OUT 0 TRANSWS
      4 Atari APL68000 import from floppy
        []MOUNT 'A:' <>  )IN 0 TRANSWS
        Problems: same as in point 2.
      5 IBM APL2/PC export to floppy:
        )HOST A: <>  )OUT TRANSWS
      6 IBM APL2/PC import from floppy:
        )HOST A: <>  )IN TRANSWS
        Problems: none experienced upto now
      7 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
      8 IBM mainframe import from floppy
        I have no experience with this, but I suppose:
        Upload TRANSWS.ATF to file ...APLTF.TRANSWS
        )IN TRANSWS
      9 Manugistics APLW export to floppy:
        ]OUT A:TRANSWS.ATF
     10 Manugistics APLW 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.
     11 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 find.
     12 Contribution of others to TRYAPL(?), IPSharp APL, ISIAPL etc.

    3. 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. 

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

   1. Different built in functions - the quad functions. This includes
      file IO, graphics etc. Also the (mostly obsolete) ibeam
      functions.
   2. Generalized arrays - boxes versus nests. A major fight in the
      community for at least the last 10 years. Unresolved.
   3. User defined operators - not all implementations allow this.
   4. 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.

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(12) 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 character :

1. My own approach - see symbols3v1.txt on csi.
   Example: s  .is + / .ro , a

2. William Chang (wchang@phage.cshl.org)  has proposed a
   J-ish vertion called APL!
   Example: s  <- +/ ? , a

3. Jim Weigang (jimw@math.umass.edu) has proposed a bit more verbose
   version.  
   Example: s {<-} +/ {rho} , a


Approaches for  objects:

1. John Mitloehner (mitloehn@uxq.wu-wien.ac.at) 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.

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

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media/documentation charges to get it from the vendor.
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