apl

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apl - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  A Programming Language
  APL
  ISO 8485
  
     <language> (APL) A language designed originally by Ken Iverson
     at Harvard University in 1957-1960 as a notation for the
     concise expression of mathematical algorithms.  It went
     unnamed (or just called Iverson's Language) and
     unimplemented for many years.  Finally a subset, APL\360, was
     implemented in 1964.
  
     APL is an interactive array-oriented language and
     programming environment with many innovative features.  It was
     originally written using a non-standard character set.
  
     It is dynamically typed with dynamic scope.  APL
     introduced several functional forms but is not purely functional
     .
  
     Dyadic Systems APL/W is one of the languages that will be
     available under Microsoft's .NET initative.
  
     ISO 8485 is the 1989 standard defining the language.
  
     Versions: APL\360, APL SV, Dyalog APL, VS APL, Sharp APL,
     Sharp APL/PC, APL*PLUS, APL*PLUS/PC, APL*PLUS/PC II, MCM APL,
     Honeyapple, DEC APL, Cognos APL2000 (http://apl2000.com/)
     , IBM APL2.
  
     See also Kamin's interpreters.
  
     APLWEB translates WEB to APL.
  
     Dijkstra said that APL was a language designed to perfection
     - in the wrong direction.
  
     ["A Programming Language", Kenneth E. Iverson, Wiley, 1962].
  
     ["APL: An Interactive Approach", 1976].
  
     (2004-02-13)
  

apl - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  APL
         A Perspicuous Language / Alles Parallel Loesbar (APL, slang)
         

  APL
         A Programming Language (IBM)