APL-Library

The objective of APL-Library is to provide a collection of APL
libraries that provide much of the functionality of other scripting
languages.

APL is a functional programming language originally proposed in the
1950s and implemented by IBM in the 1960s. Several APL interpreters
are available see http://www.sigapl.org/. These workspaces were
developed in GNU APL (http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/apl).

APL uses a suite of operators and functions represented by special
characters and many APL vendors use proprietary file formats. Files
in the library are utf-8 encoding where APL's special characters are
stored with their Unicode value.

To display these files one must have an appropriate font installed.
The Free Software Foundation offers one at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/unifont/

As the standard computer keyboard does not contain many of these
special APL characters you must reconfigure yours and you have many
options. File README-3-keyboard distributed with GNU APL offers many
ideas. I used Emacs and gnu-apl-mode.

Documentation

Open file apl-library.info by entering info path/to/apl-library.info
at the shell prompt.

Caveat

Many of these libraries depend on workspace FILE_IO.apl shipped with
gnu-apl. This workspace has recently been updated and you may need
functions not available in prior releases of gnu-apl. Source code for
gnu-apl (and workspace FILE_IO.apl) is available at
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/apl.

license

Copyright (C) 2016, 2017, 2018 Bill Daly.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.