Re: APL compilers?

ok@cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>I've recently mentioned this "R" language whose compiler is a student
>project that I'm going to be supervising. There are obviously lessons
>to be learned from compilers for
> Matlab-like languages
> APL-like languages
>I _have_ done a Web scan for information about APL compilers, but found
>only a couple of references. There are a couple of things I vaguely
>remember reading that certainly weren't on the list.
>
>Has anyone got a bibliography on compilers for *dynamic* APL-like
>languages? Has anyone got any *documented* compilers they'd be
>willing to let us look at? Any papers on-line?


  - Tim Budd has published a book describing an APL compiler.
        (Timothy Budd, An APL Compiler, Springer-Verlag 1988)


  - There are two APL compiler projects I know of but I doubt
        the authors will have you a look. One is Robert Bernecky's
        (bernecky@eecg.toronto.edu.) The other is an APL2 compiler
          by someone at IBM whose name I forgot at the moment.
        (E-mail me if you really need it, I'll try to remember.)


  - There is an APL to C translator by Dmitri Gusev (dgusev@sms.ccas.msk.su)
        and others that was described in APL 94 ( ACM )


  - For MATLAB there is MATCOM which was initially a free translator to
      to C++ for that language but has now gone commercial. Perhaps the
      manager for that project (yak@techunix.technion.ac.il) might be willing
      to discuss it.
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