There is also a portable editor written in APL at:

https://github.com/blakemcbride/APLEditor




On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 5:22 AM, Elias Mårtenson <loke...@gmail.com> wrote:

> For editor integration, there is gnu-apl-mode for Emacs, installable via
> MELPA. Another option is Aplwrap, which provides a gtk-based wrapper around
> GNU APL.
>
> Here's a video I made some time ago showing off the Emacs mode:
> http://youtu.be/yP4A5CKITnM
>
> Regards,
> Elias
> On Feb 19, 2015 7:09 PM, "Christian Robert" <christian.rob...@polymtl.ca>
> wrote:
>
>> I was to report that this APL expression
>>
>>       30 2⍴?60⍴2
>>
>> always return a row of "1" and a row of "2" (installed from the
>> source(.tar.gz) provided on GNU Mirrors)
>>
>> after looking at the "GNU APL" site for a bug report address, I saw that
>> we can get
>> the "latest" from svn; so I check-it-out, compiled, installed and to my
>> surprise
>> it no longer give me a row of "1" and "2" !
>>
>> great !
>>
>> that said, my real question is:
>>
>> how hard is it to implement the standard/or-not-as-standard-as-it-seems
>>
>> :if {boolean}
>>   do this
>> :else
>>   do that
>> :endif
>>
>> :repeat
>>   do this
>> :until {boolean}
>>
>> :for {var} :in {list}
>>   do this
>> :endfor
>>
>> :forlcl {var} :in {list}
>>   do this
>> :endforlcl
>>
>> I think there is a :while :endwhile  too
>>
>>
>> thoses are really missing (to my point of view).
>>
>> an other thing really missing is a native ")edit function_name"
>> who would open an other xterm and offer editing/modifying/saving a
>> function
>> in a window, ala VI/VIM or ala emacs or ala nano. (I may be able to help
>> in this matter, ps: ala means "like", not really "with")
>>
>> nevertheless I'm quite pleased with "GNU APL" (2 days old installation)
>>
>>
>> Christian Robert,
>> Poly.
>>
>>
>>

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