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Article #620725Re: xref Nostalgia
From: J. Clarke
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 12:21
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 12:21
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On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 22:49:19 -0800 (PST), Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote: >On Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 8:21:53 PM UTC-7, J. Clarke wrote: > >> In any case, APL doesn't give you a nice convenient text file that you >> can feed into some piece of GPLed code. Nor is there a compiler. > >It is true that the internal format of an APL workspace is undocumented. I suppose >these days one could use a screen scraper... and, for that matter, newer versions >of APL let you take a function and put its text into a matrix of characters. This >allows for writing the cross reference utility in APL. > >But it would not astonish me if newer implementations of APL, designed for use >on microcomputers instead of mainframes, would not include means of >communicating with the "outside world", as it were. They exist but they are poorly implemented. Screen-scrape? GAHHHHH. I just saved about week of calendar time on a project by replacing a screen-scrape with a page of COBOL.
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