"Simon P. Chappell" <spchapp@landsend.com> writes, in comp.lang.pop
> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 13:11:20 -0500
> Craig Brozefsky wrote:
> > Another thing that POP has going for it is the excellent
> > documentation.
>
> Where can a guy get this excellent documentation? Is there anything
> available in HTML or PDF?
There's an HTML version of my introduction to Pop-11 available for
online browsing
ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/primer/START.html
or you can fetch it to install locally:
ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/pophtmlprimer.tar.gz
My primer is not meant to be complete: it would have to be very much
bigger. There's a lot more browsable documentation on pop-11 online
in a plain text format in the various sub-directories of this
directory:
ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/doc/
The most complete information (about 2Mbytes) is in the popref/
subdirectory.
I need to prepare an overview file explaining what's where in the
doc/ directory, but have not had time to do so.
The files in that directory are all derived from the
online documentation files that come with Poplog.
Unfortunately the "original" files are mostly in a special format
that can look odd if you don't use the latest version of the Poplog
editor (VED or XVed) for viewing, though there is stuff which
enables emacs to format VED files in
ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/emacs.tar.gz
> I haven't used POP-11 since about 1989/90 when I was using it in my AI
> class at the University of Plymouth, England. We even got to play with
> the flavours package to help us get up to speed on OOP.
There is now a better integrated OOP package called Objectclass,
documented in the files copied here:
ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/doc/objectclassdocs/
> I used to have a
> book on POP-11, but that got lost in the shuffle, when I transfered
> sides of the Atlantic. I'd love to get back into this wonderful
> language.
Well, it's now all available free, and with system sources, from
here, if you have a suitable machine:
ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/freepoplog.html
> Blessings,
>
> Simon
>
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Aaron
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