APL2—a very superior Fortran

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APL2—a very superior Fortran

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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: 84 - 87

Year of Publication: 1987

ISBN:0-89791-226-8

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Author

Norman Thomson

Mail Point 188, IBM (United Kingdom) Laboratories Ltd., Hursley Park, WINCHESTER, Hants, England. SO21 2JN

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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

Properly written programs in APL2 exceed the corresponding APL programs in brevity and clarity by as large a margin as APL programs exceed those written in FORTRAN. This paper takes a topic from the area of finance and uses it to illustrate this contention.

CITED BY

Robert G. Willhoft, Comparison of the functional power of APL2 and FORTRAN 90, ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad, v.21 n.4, p.343-357, Aug. 1991

INDEX TERMS

Classification:
D. Software
D.3 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
D.3.2 Language Classifications

Nouns: APL