Norman Glick
Richard Schrader
Abstract
This paper describes an implementation of APL for the Honeywell 635 Computer. Although several of the primitives of the language have not yet been implemented, there are some system commands which provide an interesting link to other subsystems within the GECOS operating system. The primary implementation language is FORTRAN IV, so that some degree of machine independence is obtained.
The hardware, software, and user environment is briefly described, followed by a description of the APL package from the user perspective, including the reasons for selecting the ASCII character set rather than the APL set. The features which link APL to the other GECOS sybsystems, and the debug package used are briefly described, and finally, a few interesting features of the implementation are described.
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- APL on the Honeywell 635
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