List of language developers
- This article lists notable language developers only. For all APL dialects including those without notable developers, see Timeline of APL dialects. To choose a dialect for use today, consider the article on running APL.
A language developer is an organization or individual that develops and distributes a programming language. This includes vendors, which are companies that sell APL implementations, as well as developers of free implementations. In the mainframe era it was common for hardware vendors to create APL implementations in machine code for their particular architecture. Developers active today use portable languages in order to support multiple architectures.
Past developers
Hardware vendors with APL implementations
- Analogic Corporation: The APL Machine
- Burroughs Corporation: APL-B5500, APL/700
- Commodore International: Waterloo APL
- Control Data Corporation (CDC): APL/VE
- Data General: AOS/VS APL
- Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC): APL-10, VAX-11 APL
- Harris Computer Systems: Harris APL
- Honeywell: GCOS7 APL7
- Hewlett-Packard (HP): APL\3000
- Micro Computer Machines: MCM/70 firmware
- Siemens AG
- Xerox
Portable array language developers
- DECUS: APL-11 for DEC PDP-11
- IBM: APL2 and its predecessors
- I.P. Sharp Associates
- Leptonics Systems Company: MacAPL
- MicroAPL: APL.68000, APLX
- STSC
Active developers
Organizations
- APL2000: APL+Win, APL64
- Dyalog Ltd.: Dyalog APL
- Jsoftware: J
- Log-On Software: Log-On APL2
- Kx Systems: K4 and Q
Individual developers
- Adám Brudzewsky: Extended Dyalog APL
- Bob Smith (as Sudley Place Software): NARS2000
- dzaima: dzaima/APL, BQN
- Marshall Lochbaum: I, BQN
- Nick Nickolov: ngn/apl and ngn/k
- Rob Pike: Ivy
- John Gibbons: Nial
| APL development [edit] | |
|---|---|
| Interface | Session ∙ Typing glyphs (on Linux) ∙ Fonts ∙ Text editors |
| Publications | Introductions ∙ Learning resources ∙ Simple examples ∙ Advanced examples ∙ Mnemonics ∙ ISO 8485:1989 ∙ ISO/IEC 13751:2001 ∙ A Dictionary of APL ∙ Case studies ∙ Documentation suites ∙ Books ∙ Papers ∙ Videos ∙ APL Quote Quad ∙ Vector journal ∙ Terminology (Chinese, German) ∙ Neural networks ∙ Error trapping with Dyalog APL (in forms) |
| Sharing code | Backwards compatibility ∙ APLcart ∙ APLTree ∙ APL-Cation ∙ Dfns workspace ∙ Tatin ∙ Cider |
| Implementation | Resources ∙ Open-source ∙ Magic function ∙ Performance ∙ APL hardware |
| Developers | Timeline of corporations ∙ APL2000 ∙ Dyalog ∙ IBM ∙ IPSA ∙ STSC |