John E. Howland
Abstract
Much progress has been made in APL systems during the last 10 years, however, most implementations still use the standard del editor, systems commands and a character oriented, user-typed, command interface. Even the APL systems available for new graphics based workstation systems, such as Macintosh and Sun, do not fully exploit the user interface standards for those systems. It is now time to consider establishing a new standard user interface for APL running on hardware systems which support bit mapped graphics displays and a pointing device. This paper presents such a design which is based in part on the Macintosh user interface, but includes special features for handling the APL workspace environment.
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