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| * [wiki:WikiPedia/APL_programming_language Wikipedia article on APL] * [http://home.earthlink.net/~swsirlin/apl.faq.html Sam Sirlin's APL FAQ] * [http://elliscave.com/APL_J/tool.pdf Notation as a Tool of Thought] K.E. Iverson's 1979 Turing Award lecture (see also ClassicPapers) |
* [[WikiPedia:APL_programming_language|Wikipedia]] * [[http://home.earthlink.net/~swsirlin/apl.faq.html|Sam Sirlin's APL FAQ]] * [[http://elliscave.com/APL_J/tool.pdf|Notation as a Tool of Thought]] K.E. Iverson's 1979 Turing Award lecture (see also ClassicPapers) |
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.
Related articles
Other sources
Notation as a Tool of Thought K.E. Iverson's 1979 Turing Award lecture (see also ClassicPapers)