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