Why APL2: a discussion of design principles

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Why APL2: a discussion of design principles

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International Conference on APL archive
Proceedings of the international conference on APL: APL in transition table of contents

Dallas, Texas, United States

Pages: 30 - 36

Year of Publication: 1987

ISBN:0-89791-226-8

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James A. Brown

IBM Santa Teresa Lab J88/E42, 555 Bailey Ave., P.O. Box 50020, San Jose, Calif.

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SIGAPL: ACM Special Interest Group on APL Programming Language

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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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.

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	Br1	Brown, J. A., "The Principle6 of APL", IBM Santa Teresa Technical Report TR 03.247. March 1984.
	Gh1	Ghandour, Z., and Mezei, J., "General Arrays, Operators, and Functions", IBM Journal of Research and Development. Vol. 17, no. 4, July, 1973.

CITED BY 2

	M. Gfeller, From a functional point of view: a framework for extensions to APL, ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad, v.18 n.2, p.162-165, Dec. 1987
	Jean-Jacques Girardot, Arrays and references, ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad, v.20 n.4, p.161-172, July 1990