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  APL2 in depth
Thomson N., Polivka R., Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., New York, NY, 1995.  Type: Book (9780387942131)

Thomason and Polivka thoroughly explain an extension to Kenneth Iverson’s creative functional programming language, APL [1]. A prior understanding of APL is almost mandatory to understand APL2 in this book. This new dialect, ...

Sep 1 1996
  VDE
Merrill J. ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad 25(1): 152-157, 1994.  Type: Article

Merrill shares his experiences during the development and implementation of a custom database management system for a large bank. He combines inverted data files (in which table fields are stored as contiguous arrays) with APL function...

Oct 1 1995
  The APL theory of human vision
Langlet G. ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad 25(1): 105-121, 1994.  Type: Article

The “theory of human vision” of the title is essentially a theory of processing digital information, where processing includes both the storage and the transmission of information. All digital information can be rep...

Sep 1 1995
  Restriction riddance: more power to parentheses
van Batenburg F. ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad 25(1): 220-224, 1994.  Type: Article

The author points out that the history of APL is one of the removal of restrictions, citing as examples not having to declare the datatypes of language elements such as variables before use, not tying them to one datatype, and not havi...

Aug 1 1995
  Extending APL2 to include program control structures
Selby D. ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad 24(1): 209-213, 1993.  Type: Article

An intriguing rationale is provided for the introduction of new keywords that expedite more formal control structures in APL2. Formal definitions of the newly proposed keywords, such as if, then, else, do, and while, are ...

Jan 1 1995
  APL2: getting started
Brown J., Crowder H. IBM Systems Journal 30(4): 433-445, 1991.  Type: Article

This journal issue contains a set of papers on APL collected for its 25th birthday. Rather than analyze them in the order in which they were printed, I have grouped them into four classes: general features of APL, implementation, appli...

Dec 1 1993
  Advanced applications of APL
Alfonseca M. IBM Systems Journal 30(4): 543-553, 1991.  Type: Article

This journal issue contains a set of papers on APL collected for its 25th birthday. Rather than analyze them in the order in which they were printed, I have grouped them into four classes: general features of APL, implementation, appli...

Dec 1 1993
  A personal view of APL
Iverson K. IBM Systems Journal 30(4): 582-593, 1991.  Type: Article

This journal issue contains a set of papers on APL collected for its 25th birthday. Rather than analyze them in the order in which they were printed, I have grouped them into four classes: general features of APL, implementation, appli...

Dec 1 1993
  IBM Systems Journal (v.30 n.4)
Hoffnagle G. (ed)  IBM Systems Journal 44:1991.  Type: Journal

This journal issue contains a set of papers on APL collected for its 25th birthday. Rather than analyze them in the order in which they were printed, I have grouped them into four classes: general features of APL, implementation, appli...

Dec 1 1993
  The A+ programming language, a different APL
Girardot J. ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad 20(4): 149-160, 1990.  Type: Article

Many computer scientists dislike several things about APL. The best-known are lack of proper block and control structures, dynamic binding, and the lack of first-class functions. The author discusses each of these deficiencies and give...

May 1 1992
 
 
 
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