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== Influential array languages ==
The following array family programming languages, and papers describing languages, have had a major influence on commonly-used APLs.
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| 1962 || [[A Programming Language]] describes [[Ken Iverson]]'s [[Iverson notation|notation]]
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| 1966 || [[APL\360]] completed and used within [[IBM]]
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| 1968 || [[APL\1130]] released as an [[wikipedia:IBM Type-III Library|IBM Type-III Library]]
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| 1970 || [[APL*PLUS]] is offered by [[IPSA]] and [[STSC]] as part of a time-sharing service
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| 1971 || "A Generalization of APL", [[Jim Brown]]'s Ph.D. thesis, describes a [[Nested array model|nested]] APL which later becomes the basis of [[APL2]]
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| 1973 || [[APL.SV]] introduces [[shared variable]]s
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| 1976 || [[VS APL]] is [[IBM]]'s first APL to interact with the host system
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| 1976 (approximate) || [[SHARP APL]] splits from [[APL*PLUS]]
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| 1981 || [[NARS]] is the first [[Nested array model|nested]] APL
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| 1981 || [[SHARP APL]] adds [[box]]es to the [[flat array model]]
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| 1983 || [[Rationalized APL]], a paper on [[Ken Iverson|Iverson]]'s latest thinking on APL, includes the [[Rank operator]] added to [[SHARP APL]] later that year
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| 1983 || [[Dyalog APL]], based on [[NARS]] and the to-be-released [[APL2]], is released
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| 1984 || [[APL2]] is [[IBM]]'s take on [[Nested array model|nested]] array programming
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| 1985 || [[A]] is [[Arthur Whitney]]'s APL, the first to be based on [[leading axis theory]]
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| 1987 || [[A Dictionary of APL]] describes a precursor to [[J]]
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| 1988 || [[A+]] adds a [[wikipedia:Graphical user interface|GUI]] to A and replaces it
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| 1990 || [[J]] is [[Ken Iverson]]'s new array language, with [[wikipedia:ASCII|ASCII]] characters and based on [[leading axis theory]]
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| 1992 || [[K]] ("K0"), [[Arthur Whitney]]'s [[List model|list]]-based language, first becomes available
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| 1997 || [[Dyalog APL]] adds [[dfn]]s
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| 2006 || [[NARS2000]], a successor to [[NARS]], is released
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| 2009 || [[VisualAPL]] is the first [[.NET]]-based APL, but soon stops development
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| 2010 || [[APL#]], a [[.NET]]-based language, is released by [[Dyalog Ltd.]], to be abandoned in 2012
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| 2013 || [[GNU APL]] is the first fully [[wikipedia:Scripting language|scriptable]] APL
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Revision as of 16:02, 12 February 2021

APL dialects

This is a list of programming languages that are broadly compatible with APL\360 by date of release (that is, when they became available to a significant portion of the public).

Year Dialects
1966 APL\360 internal IBM release
1968 APL\1130, APL\360
1970 APL*PLUS, APL\5500
1971 APL/700 (approximate date)
1973 APL.SV
1974 APL 5100, MCM/70
1976 VS APL, SHARP APL, APL\3000, APL\11
1981 NARS
1983 Dyalog APL, APL.68000 (approximate date)
1984 APL2
1985 A
1988 A+
1989 I-APL
1993 SAX
1995 APL+Win
1998 OpenAPL
2002 APLX
2004 Rowan
2006 NARS2000
2009 VisualAPL
2010 APL#
2011 ngn/apl
2013 GNU APL
2014 Co-dfns
2018 April, dzaima/APL, APL\iv, Extended Dyalog APL
2020 KAP

Other array languages

Year Languages
1989 J
1993 K
2014 Ivy
2018 RAD
2020 BQN
APL dialects [edit]
Maintained APL+Win ∙ APL2 ∙ APL64 ∙ APL\iv ∙ Aplette ∙ April ∙ Co-dfns ∙ Dyalog APL ∙ Dyalog APL Vision ∙ dzaima/APL ∙ GNU APL ∙ Kap ∙ NARS2000 ∙ Pometo ∙ TinyAPL
Historical A Programming Language ∙ A+ (A) ∙ APL# ∙ APL2C ∙ APL\360 ∙ APL/700 ∙ APL\1130 ∙ APL\3000 ∙ APL.68000 ∙ APL*PLUS ∙ APL.jl ∙ APL.SV ∙ APLX ∙ Extended Dyalog APL ∙ Iverson notation ∙ IVSYS/7090 ∙ NARS ∙ ngn/apl ∙ openAPL ∙ Operators and Functions ∙ PAT ∙ Rowan ∙ SAX ∙ SHARP APL ∙ Rationalized APL ∙ VisualAPL (APLNext) ∙ VS APL ∙ York APL
Derivatives AHPL ∙ BQN ∙ CoSy ∙ ELI ∙ Glee ∙ I ∙ Ivy ∙ J ∙ Jelly ∙ K (Goal, Klong, Q) ∙ KamilaLisp ∙ Lang5 ∙ Lil ∙ Nial ∙ RAD ∙ Uiua
Overviews Comparison of APL dialects ∙ Timeline of array languages ∙ Timeline of influential array languages ∙ Family tree of array languages
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