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Date:	Sat, 18 May 2002 06:58:35 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: left behind?

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In <3CE5E74A.FE607A3A@gte.net>, on 05/17/02
at 09:29 PM, "Benedict G. Archer" said:

>is they announced version 2.0 of APL (1.0 has been around since Abraham),
>and they've added Linux as a supported platform. The bad news is that,
>apparently, they've dropped OS/2. Oh well, 1.0 with csd 19 is really
>quite nice, but 2.0 does appear to have significant enhancements, e.g.,

Too bad, but not unexpected. The only development tool that still seems
to be at the same level on all platforms is SmallTalk. There must be some
rather important enterprise apps that depend on it.

>features. But I find advice on the Octave site that gcc 2.96 is required
>to compile Octave versions just barely past the last OS/2 port. Maybe
>that's the reason later versions haven't been ported to OS/2. I'll keep

It's possible. It's also possible that Klaus is finished with school and
doesn't have the time. He was associated with U. Darmstadt and I got the
impression he was a student rather than faculty, but I'm not sure.

Steven

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