Welcome to aplette
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Aplette is a slimmed down, skinny APL interpreter derived from openApl.
On linux, you will need to install bison and libreadline.
For example, on Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install bison
sudo apt-get install libreadline8 libreadline-dev bison
annoyingly, libreadline keeps getting renamed, with new numbers.
You may need to do something like the following to find the current
version of libreadline:
apt list 2> /dev/null | egrep 'libreadline[0-9]/'
On Windows, I have tested with cygwin only. In your cygwin installation,
you will need to include gcc, gnu make, libreadline_devel, and bison.
To build:
$> ./configure
$> make
This will build the binary executable source/aplette.
You can test your installation as follows:
$> cd qa
$> make
aplette uses an ASCII/APL character mapping dubbed APL-touchtype.
The command ")font" will print the APL-touchtype characters in
tabular form.
If you can write APL with your eyes closed, you can use
APL-touchtype. "rho" is "R", "iota" is "I", etc. Trig is "O". Log is
"O@*". (APL-touchtype uses "@" instead of backspace, and with that trivial
substitution, all of the APL overstrikes become APL-touchtype ascii.)
gregfjohnson/aplette
This is a new take on an old language: APL. The goal is to pare APL down to its elegant essence. This version of APL is oriented toward scripting within a Unix-style computing environment.
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