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About APL
APL is A Programming Language, derived from a mathematical notation developed at Harvard in the 1950s and published in a book of the same name by Kenneth E. Iverson.
It is distinguished by
- extreme terseness
- defining its primitives over arrays
the use of special glyphs to denote its primitive functions
- extensive use of higher-order functions
The original APL\1130 spawned many APLs and related languages. It has also exercised a strong influence on functional_Programming.
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Other sources
Notation as a Tool of Thought K.E. Iverson's 1979 Turing Award lecture (see also ClassicPapers)