APL Wiki|
Size: 171
Comment:
|
← Revision 21 as of 2009-03-11 09:22:02 ⇥
Size: 1065
Comment:
|
| Deletions are marked like this. | Additions are marked like this. |
| Line 1: | Line 1: |
| APL is using a special character set instead of keywords. For details look at SpecialCharacters. | = About APL = |
| Line 3: | Line 3: |
| * [wiki:WikiPedia/APL_programming_language Wikipedia article on 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 [[WikiPedia: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 WikiPedia:functional_Programming. == Related articles == * [[DiscoveringApl|Discovering APL]] * [[WhichApl|Which APL?]] * [[AplHistory|APL's History]] == Other sources == * [[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) ---- CategoryAboutApl |
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)