Timeline of influential array languages: Difference between revisions

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The following array family programming languages, and papers describing languages, have had a major influence on commonly-used APLs.

Year	Event
1962	A Programming Language describes Ken Iverson's notation
1966	APL\360 completed and used within IBM
1968	APL\1130 released as an IBM Type-III Library
1970	APL*PLUS is offered by IPSA and STSC as part of a time-sharing service
1971	"A Generalization of APL", Jim Brown's Ph.D. thesis, describes a nested APL which later becomes the basis of APL2
1973	APL.SV introduces shared variables
1976	VS APL is IBM's first APL to interact with the host system
1976 (approximate)	SHARP APL splits from APL*PLUS
1981	NARS is the first nested APL
1981	SHARP APL adds boxes to the flat array model
1983	Rationalized APL, a paper on Iverson's latest thinking on APL, includes the Rank operator added to SHARP APL later that year
1983	Dyalog APL, based on NARS and the to-be-released APL2, is released
1984	APL2 is IBM's take on nested array programming
1985	A is Arthur Whitney's APL, the first to be based on leading axis theory
1987	A Dictionary of APL describes a precursor to J
1988	A+ adds a GUI to A and replaces it
1990	J is Ken Iverson's new array language, with ASCII characters and based on leading axis theory
1992	K ("K0"), Arthur Whitney's list-based language, first becomes available
1997	Dyalog APL adds dfns
2006	NARS2000, a successor to NARS, is released
2009	VisualAPL is the first .NET-based APL, but soon stops development
2010	APL#, a .NET-based language, is released by Dyalog Ltd., to be abandoned in 2012
2013	GNU APL is the first fully scriptable APL

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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+== See also ==
+* [[Timeline of array languages]]
+* [[Array language genealogy]]
 {{APL dialects}}[[Category:Timelines]][[Category:APL history]][[Category:Lists of languages]]