TE I ~ A D INTEKVIE'~6r server-side programming with APL. One of our goals with this product was to keep compatibility with IBM's and Sharp's AP 127. We made it real fast and introduced asynchronous features. the ,llegro USA, Inc. Partners: QQ:What does the interface to ODBC do for you? Andrei: It provides access from APL to relational databases or to Andrei Kondrashev, Walter Fil, and Steve Halasz from iring° Allegro USA, Inc.: Andrei Kondrashev, Walter Fil, and Steve Halasz. T h e interview was conducted for APL Quote Quad by Ray Polivka, during the week of the APL99 Conference in Scranton, Pennsylvania on August 10, 1999. any data source that behaves like a relational database. It may be something different inside but it wouldn't matter. W a l ~ r : Generally, AP127 was a major leap forward when Sharp APL and APL2 offered it on the mainframe in the 1980s. It was our intention backin 1994 to introduce a compatible product. At first, it was just a migration facility. AP127 had its pluses and minuses, but some years ofexperience have shown us what could be improved. In any case, AP747 is largely superset of AP127. QQ:
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