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Re: Report on APL/11

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From: utzoodecvaxharpoihnp4ixn5cinuxcp...
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1982 23:37
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Unfortunately, APL\11 is a very old program (I believe it predates
V6 UNIX) and some of the problems that George Otto has mentioned
(and will mention) are very difficult to fix.  I don't remember
exactly why doing a "take" on a null vector is incorrect; at one
time you couldn't take more than the array contained (for instance

	5 take 3 rho 0

was not accepted).  I checked the code and my private log of changes
and I mentioned at the time that taking from a null didn't work.
I haven't worked on it in quite a while; it was always a peripheral
project and my thesis deadline is now 10 days away.

Anyway, the principal point of this news submission is to tell anyone
who may be interested in APL\11 that I won't be here to distribute
it anymore.  If you'd like a copy you should contact my former
major professor, Dr. Anthony P. Reeves, who is now at Cornell.  You
can reach him at "{decvax,harpo}!cornell!reeves".

--John Bruner
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From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!ecn-pa:bruner
Newsgroups: net.lang.apl
Title: Re: Report on APL/11
Article-I.D.: ecn-pa.664
Posted: Tue Nov 30 23:37:03 1982
Received: Thu Dec  2 01:51:37 1982
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Subject: Re: Report on APL/11
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1982 23:37:03 +0000
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