Re: [Bug-apl] fpc/freepascal interface

2019-06-27 Thread Rowan Cannaday
Almost forgot, there is also this, but some of the design decisions lead me to believe it aims to solve some of the perceived shortcomings of APL (IO set to 0 for example), than maybe a faithful implementation, but still an interesting project worth taking a look at. https://gitlab.com/n9n/apl (a

Re: [Bug-apl] fpc/freepascal interface

2019-06-27 Thread Rowan Cannaday
@Alexey I actually floated this idea to the creator of "April" (an APL subset that compiles to common lisp). I'll link the ticket below, but his response was as follows: "JS is not a very good language for implementing APL because it has no true multidimensional arrays; only nested vectors. There

Re: [Bug-apl] fpc/freepascal interface

2019-06-27 Thread Alexey Veretennikov
Need JavaScript/Node.js bindigs then :) Dr. Jürgen Sauermann writes: > sure. But I would bet that today the number of python users is at least > two magnitudes greater > than the number of Pascal users (not counting those who have ceased to > exist since Pascal > was invented). > > > On 6/27/19

Re: [Bug-apl] fpc/freepascal interface

2019-06-27 Thread Dr . Jürgen Sauermann
sure. But I would bet that today the number of python users is at least two magnitudes greater than the number of Pascal users (not counting those who have ceased to exist since Pascal was invented). On 6/27/19 5:37 PM, enz...@gmx.com wrote: > a grand geocentric (aplcentric) point of view indeed

Re: [Bug-apl] fpc/freepascal interface

2019-06-27 Thread enztec
a grand geocentric (aplcentric) point of view indeed - i'm pretty sure the number of pascal users is orders of magnitude greater then the number of apl programmers On Tue, 18 Jun 2019 22:10:20 +0200 Dr. Jürgen Sauermann wrote: > Hi, > > I believe that extending some language X with an inter