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1. Re: Announcing "The GNU APL Bible: Implementing APL in C++"
(Robin Haberkorn)
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Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:32:48 +0000
From: "Robin Haberkorn"<[email protected]>
To: "Dr. Juergen Sauermann"<[email protected]>, "bug-apl"
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Announcing "The GNU APL Bible: Implementing APL in C++"
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Congratulations, Jürgen!
I discovered your book even before you announced it. I was looking
for *something* about APL and there it was.
Books on Demand is quite expensive, though. Are you planning
a digital release as well?
Best regards,
Robin
On Sun Sep 27, 2026 at 21:10:17 GMT +02, Dr. Juergen Sauermann via Bugs and
suggestions for GNU APL wrote:
Hi all,
I'm happy to announce that I've finished a book about GNU APL:
*The GNU APL Bible: Implementing APL in C++*
It's a 324-page, chapter-by-chapter walk through the actual
implementation: the core data model (Value, Shape, ravel, the Cell
hierarchy), the execution pipeline (tokenizer, parser, prefix, the
state indicator), built-in functions and operators, symbol and
workspace management, and the more advanced corners -- the libapl
embedding API, native functions and auxiliary processors, parallel
execution, the WebSocket/GUI interfaces, and the Windows port. A final
part is aimed squarely at anyone who wants to contribute: navigating
the source tree, common maintenance tasks, debugging techniques, and
the Savannah/mailing-list workflow itself. Style is deliberately
modeled on Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming" -- annotated code
listings, historical notes, and exercises at the end of each chapter.
A free preview -- front cover, the full table of contents (with the
same page numbers as the printed book), the preface, and Chapters 1-3
in full -- is at *HOWTOs/Bible/Bible-Preview.pdf* in your *SVN 2128* or
*Git* checkout (just *svn up*, or *git pull*), or directly from Savannah:
http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/apl/trunk/HOWTOs/Bible/Bible-Preview.pdf
Detailed ordering instructions for the whole book are at the end of
the preview.
I hope this is a useful companion for anyone maintaining, extending,
or just curious about what's actually going on inside GNU APL.
Best regards,
Jürgen
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