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= About APL =

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 [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

The original APL\1130 spawned [:/AplsAndRelatedLanguages:many APLs and related languages]. It has also exercised a strong influence on [wiki:WikiPedia/Functional_Programming functional programming].

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AboutApl (last edited 2009-03-11 09:22:02 by KaiJaeger)