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: sam@kalessin.jpl.nasa.gov) ftp://archive.uwaterloo.ca/languages/apl/apl-11 email: mcain@advtech.uswest.com.
APL2000
(formerly sold by Manugistics/STSC): APL+PC, APL+DOS, APL+UNIX, APL+Win (for Windows 3.1, NT, 95), APL+Link, APL+Link Pro, APLSE for DOS (freeware, no printed documentation or support) APL+ Consulting Services APL2000 Inc. 6610 Rockledge Drive, Suite 502, Bethesda Maryland USA 20817 Main Phone: (301) 564-5020 Sales Phone: 609-734-9692 Sales Fax: 609-734-9644 Support Phone: 301-564-5027 Support Fax: 301-564-5021 Consulting Services Phone: 609-734-9621 email: sales@apl2000.com support@apl2000.com consult@apl2000.com http://www.APL2000.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 email: microapl@microapl.demon.co.uk email: microapl@applelink.apple.com WWW: http://www.microapl.co.uk
APL92
APL92 (Mac, system 7.1), older APL90: ftp://ftp.emse.fr/pub/lang/apl/ Jean-Jacques Girardot School Mines St-Etienne, France email: girardot@cambur.emse.fr
APROL
APROL (Scheme/J mix): For information (7/15/98): http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~jhowland/aprol.paper.ps email: jhowland@ariel.cs.trinity.edu
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: 76207.3343@CompuServe.com ftp://archive.uwaterloo.ca/languages/apl/CAP/ Rainer J. H. Brandt succeeded in geting CAPLIB2 to compile under NetBSD and Solaris; see http://www.ph-cip.uni-koeln.de/~rbrandt/apl/ email: rbrandt@ph-cip.uni-koeln.de
D4
D4 (IBM PC, Windows). Unix like shell for windows The shell is writen in D4, a dialect of APL Anonymous ftp ftp://ftp.webstrand.org/d4/
DEC
DEC (VAX APL V4.0): Digital Equipment Corp. Maynard, MASS, USA
Dyalog APL
Dyalog APL (Win 95/98, Unix/Motif, Windows 3.x): 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 http://www.dyadic.com 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 Canadian Distributors: Strand Software, Toronto The Braegen Group, Toronto Finnish Distributor: Dinosoft Oy Lonnrotinkatu 21 C 00120 HELSINKI, Finland phone: +358 9 70028820, fax: +358 9 70028824 email: dinosoft@dinosoft.fi http://yritys.kolumbus.fi/dinosoft/ German Distributor APL Software Team GmbH P.O.Box 1307 61243 Usingen Phone 49 6081 68380 Fax 49 6081 68580 http://www.aplteam.de
FreeAPL
IBM PC, MS Windows, version of APL\11 Tauno Ylinen, email: tylinen@mits.mdata.fi http://www.pyr.fi/apl/
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
APL2 for PC DOS, OS/2, Windows 95, Windows NT, RISC System/6000, Sun Solaris, and IBM mainframes, plus TryAPL2 for PC DOS (free*) APL Products IBM Santa Teresa, Dept. RENA/F41 555 Bailey Avenue San Jose, California 95141, USA Phone: 408-463-APL2 (408-463-2752), FAX: 408-463-4488 email: apl2@vnet.ibm.com CompuServe: go IBMAPL2 IBMMAIL: USIB6JN8 http://www.software.ibm.com/ad/apl ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com, IBM support site. Look in /ps/products/apl2 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 APL2 for Windows is part number 4229558 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) [11/98] Interprocess Systems, Inc. http://www.interprocess.com/
J & APLIWIN
J (for DOS, Linux, Windows, Mac, RS/6000, 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 Web: http://www.jsoftware.com email: info@jsoftware.com
K
K, K-lite; an APL derivative (?) Kx Systems Palo Alto, CA 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 (914) 682-0377 version 1.13 ftp://ftp.uwtc.washington.edu/pub/Mac/Programming/Languages/ (no longer: ftp://ftp.ens.fr/pub/mac/hqx/ )
APL*PLUS II/VMS, Statgraphics
Manugistics (formerly STSC): Manugistics 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 email: support: answer@manu.com international: intl@manu.com BBS: 301-984-5222
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
SHARP APL
SHARP APL (MVS, AIX, SunOS, Solaris); also Viewpoint, LOGOS, Mailbox: 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 email: 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 http://www.soliton.com
Q'Nial
NIAL Systems Limited 366 King Street East Suite 540 Kingston, Ontario K7K 6Y3 http://www.nial.com/ email: info@nial.com

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 Phone 888-887-2739, Ext. 3357 Int.l 1-801-223-3357 Fax 801-223-9955 e-mail: barias@apexcs.com
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. Phone: 408/973-7171 Fax: 408/257-6405 email: Donna@NetManage.com
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. (800) 426-6283 (206) 644-4010 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. (770) 442-4000
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
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 for SunOS 4 and Solaris 2 which emulates an IBM 3179G APA colour graphics terminal.
TN3270
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
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
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

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: (602) 634-7515 Fax: (602) 634-4620
Keyboard stickers
APL2000 Inc. (see above address)

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 aplsales@manu.com.
Experimental:
APEX
Robert Bernecky's APEX compiler: Snake Island Research Inc. http://home.ican.net/~bernecky email:bernecky@eecg.toronto.edu
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 (3.28) of Budd's older aplc: (mostly flat apl, ported to Sun4/5, Freebsd, Atari, Linux, Dec Alpha) See http://www.izap.com/~sirlin (under construction) or send mail to sam@kalessin.jpl.nasa.gov asking for it
A list of references on APL compilation is available ftp://archive.uwaterloo.ca/languages/apl/bibliography/compilers.html or comp_ref.doc, from http://www.izap.com/~sirlin

Dino database for huge amount of data, Saurus tools for multidimensional databases
Dinosoft Oy Lonnrotinkatu 21 C 00120 HELSINKI, Finland phone: +358 9 70028820, fax: +358 9 70028824 email: dinosoft@dinosoft.fi http://yritys.kolumbus.fi/dinosoft/
IEDIT (APL2 editor), AFM file system, APL2 tools
Interprocess Systems, Inc. http://www.interprocess.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
APs for Dyalog APL for Windows
Auxiliary Processors for Dyalog APL for Windows 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 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

1. Fonts for TeX, laTeX, the X windows system, postscript, and truetype (windows) are available. See ftp://archive.uwaterloo.ca/languages/apl/fonts/

2. Truetype fonts for windows are available from ISI.

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).

5. 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.

6. 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 and Sam Sirlin's home page.

7. For web browsers, see Vector's site for a free ttf font (for pc's) http://www.vector.org.uk/aplfont.htm Dyadic has a .fon font (for pc's) I don't know how to make this work for X though yet.

1. Archived APL/J files:

   The BBS\APL is no longer in operation. However, its 50 megs of selected files are now available by mail or email. Send your request for an email copy of the BBS\APL file catalog (66k) to dick.holt@juno.com.

   The catalog lists workspaces and information files for APL*PLUS, IBM APL2, TryAPL2, J, ISI, Sharp, Dyalog, on-screen APL lessons and documentation for APLSE, cryptography, APL in French, APL Conference Software, I-APL, and more.

   Some of this software may also be available at: ftp://watserv1.uwaterloo.ca/languages/apl/Welcome.html

2. Anonymous ftp servers:
   • 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

   • 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 ftp://archive.uwaterloo.ca/languages/apl/Welcome.html ftp://archive.uwaterloo.ca/languages/j/Welcome.html

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

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

   • 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 OS2, and TryAPL.

   • ftp://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)

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

   • ftp://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. Web (WWW) html servers:
   • ACM SIGAPL - information about the ACM, SIGAPL, related organizations, conferences, Internet resources, and the APL White Pages. http://www.acm.org/sigapl/

   • AFAPL - French APL users group. http://www.ensmp.fr/~scherer/langlet/

   • APL96 photos by Bob Armstrong http://cosy.com/cosy/language/apl96.htm

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

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

   • APL Software Team GmbH - German distributor of Dyadic APL http://www.aplteam.de

   • The Brighton University Resource Kit for Students, produced by John English (with various APL resources) http://burks.bton.ac.uk

   • Bernard Houben's site, IQL, Dyalog APL http://www.tip.nl/users/bernard.houben/

   • Dyadic http://www.dyadic.com/

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

   • Conrad Hoesle-Kienzlen's web page, CHK IT-Consulting http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/conrad_hoesle/projects.htm

   • IBM APL2 Home Page http://www.software.ibm.com/ad/apl

   • Web site for the J FAQ http://www.jsoftware.com/download/jfaq.txt

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

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

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

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

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

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

   • Sam Sirlin's Home page The site for this FAQ, my version of the apl compiler, some scripts for J, LaTeX J language summary, J faq, APL92, my version of apl\11, modified for my keywords. (under construction) http://www.izap.com/~sirlin

   • Web site for Les Nouvelles d'APL http://www.ensmp.fr/~scherer/langlet

   • Web Site for Lingo Allegro: http://www.lingo.com

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

   • Oxford University auto-htmlized version of this FAQ (gone?) http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/internet/news/faq/archive/apl-faq.html

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

   • Soliton's web page http://www.soliton.com

   • Toronto SIG - various information, back issues of the newsletter Gimme Arrays! http://www.torontoapl.org

   • Uniware (APL+Win and Dyalog APL/W, for now) http://www.uniware.fr/uk (english) http://www.uniware.fr (french)

   • Web site for Vector (maintained by Ray Cannon) http://www.vector.org.uk

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

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@unb.ca
           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@UNB.CA, APL-L@UNBVM1.BITNET (broken?) APL Language Discussion (mirror of comp.lang.apl)
   APLEDU-L	APLEDU-L@UNBVM1.BITNET APL in Education

6. 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 ljdickey@math.uwaterloo.ca (SC22 WG3 attendees)

7. 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:

   • ftp://archive.uwaterloo.ca/languages/apl/software-library
   • ftp://wuvieai.wu-wei.ac/pub/lang/apl (Vienna mirror of Waterloo)
   It's also available at:
   • BBS\APL: (see above, FileArea APL96)

   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)
   APL2OS2T	APL2/2 Tutorial for OS/2 (Jizba, US)
   APLSE	Free APL*PLUS v10 Interpreter (Manugistics/APL2000)
   LRNAPLSE	APLSE Tutorial & Documentation (Holt, US)
   UNLOCK-D	Unlock locked fns in any small AWS (Holt, US)
   SL-Guide	How 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 not currently available, but is expected to be operational by 1997.

   SIGAPL's updated Software Library guidelines are:

   • 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.

   • 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.

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

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

   • 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.

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

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

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

• 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
  email: shaw@ix.netcom.com
  http://www.aplbooks.cnchost.com
  or call Ed Shaw at the APL Group, Inc. at (203)762-3933
  (Please do not ask for RDS)

• Robert G. Brown
  APL Book Sales
  6749 South Westnedge Avenue
  Suite K-288
  Portage, Michigan
  USA 49002
  email address: bob@acm.org
  FAX: (616) 324-9070

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

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

For a more complete list online see: ftp://archive.uwaterloo.ca/languages/apl/bibliography/index.html

• 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• K. Iverson, Concrete Mathematics Companion

• 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Jim Weigang, "APL Notes," Available from J. Weigang (includes APL*PLUS interpreter)
  40 Pelham Lane
  Wilton, CT 06897
  USA
  price: US$29 postpaid in US & Canada, US$38 overseas.

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

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

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

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

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

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

   10. 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.

   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.

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 my home page
   Example:

   s  .is + / .ro , a

2. William Chang (wchang@phage.cshl.org) has proposed a J-ish verion 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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