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Why APL2: a discussion of design principles

Published: 01 January 1987 Publication History

Abstract

APL2 represents a quantum leap in the function of the APL notation over earlier IBM offerings. Achieving a consistent language required going back to the fundamentals and rethinking some of the original principles of APL and in a few cases making some changes.
This paper discusses some of the extensions and gives the reasons why they were chosen over other possible extensions.

References

[1]
Brown, J. A., "The Principle6 of APL", IBM Santa Teresa Technical Report TR 03.247. March 1984.
[2]
Ghandour, Z., and Mezei, J., "General Arrays, Operators, and Functions", IBM Journal of Research and Development. Vol. 17, no. 4, July, 1973.

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cover image ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad
ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad  Volume 17, Issue 4
May 1987
502 pages
ISSN:0163-6006
DOI:10.1145/384282
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  • cover image ACM Conferences
    APL '87: Proceedings of the international conference on APL: APL in transition
    January 1987
    512 pages
    ISBN:0897912268
    DOI:10.1145/28315

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Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

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Published: 01 January 1987
Published in SIGAPL Volume 17, Issue 4

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