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Dyalog APL was first released by British company Dyalog Ltd. [107] in 1983 [108] and, as of 2018, is available for AIX, Linux (including on the Raspberry Pi), macOS and Microsoft Windows platforms. It is based on APL2, with extensions to support object-oriented programming, [109] functional programming, [110] and tacit programming. [111]
Tacit programming, also called point-free style, is a programming paradigm in which function definitions do not identify the arguments (or "points") on which they operate. Instead the definitions merely compose other functions, among which are combinators that manipulate the arguments.
Before Unicode, APL interpreters were supplied with fonts in which APL characters were mapped to less commonly used positions in the ASCII character sets, usually in the upper 128 code points. These mappings (and their national variations) were sometimes unique to each APL vendor's interpreter, which made the display of APL programs on the Web ...
Dyalog APL: Dyalog Ltd. 1981 1983 18.0 10 June 2020: Not free (commercial), Free (non-commercial) Proprietary: A modern dialect of APL, enhanced with features for functional and object-oriented programming. Euler Math Toolbox: René Grothmann 1987 1988 2022-02-10 10 February 2022: Free GPL: Also a computer algebra system through interface with ...
As of 2010, Unicode allows APL to be stored in text files, published in print and on the web, and shared through email and instant messaging. Entering APL characters still requires the use of either a specific input method editor or keyboard mapping, or of a specific touch interface. APL keyboard mappings are available for free for the most ...
When APL\360 was first introduced in 1968, there were no built-in means by which a user could directly access data from outside of the APL system. Thus, starting in 1969, IBM developed the shared variable facility. [2] Following APL.SV, the IBM VS APL and APL2 program products also supported shared variables, as did the IBM 5100 line of computers.
In 1996, John Scholes of Dyalog Limited invented direct functions (dfns). [1] [6] [7] The ideas originated in 1989 when he read a special issue of The Computer Journal on functional programming. [33] He then proceeded to study functional programming and became strongly motivated ("sick with desire", like Yeats) to bring these ideas to APL.
ELI [3] is an interactive array programming language system based on the programming language APL.It has most of the functions of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) APL standard ISO/IEC 13751:2001, and also list for non-homogeneous or non-rectangular data, complex numbers, symbols, temporal data, and control structures.