SmartArrays for the APL programmer

ABSTRACT

The SmartArrays Software Develop Kit (SDK) is a technology that provides APL-style multi-dimensional nested array operations in traditional languages like C++ and Java. Using the syntax of the host language, SmartArrays provides a multi-dimensional array class with methods which include the traditional APL array operations but which are augmented with many additional methods. This paper shows use of the SmartArrays SDK by example and compares it to traditional APL.