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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 [wiki:Kenneth_E._Iverson Kenneth E. Iverson].

It is distinguished by

extreme terseness
defining its primitives over arrays
the use of [:SpecialCharacters:special glyphs] to denote its primitive functions
extensive use of higher-order functions

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Further reading