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:''This page is about the Morgan Stanley dialect. For the project based on [[APL 90 (dialect)]] and presented at [[APL90]], which replaced functions with first-class blocks, see [[A+ (Girardot)]].'' | |||
'''A+''' is an extension of the A language. A was created in 1985 by [[Arthur Whitney]], then of [[wikipedia:Morgan Stanley|Morgan Stanley]]. At the time, various departments had a significant investment in APL applications and talent, APL being a language well-suited to the manipulation of large arrays of numbers. As technology was moving from the mainframe to distributed systems, there was a search for a suitable APL implementation to run on SunOS, the distributed platform of the period, and this prompted Whitney to create A as a statically typed dialect of APL with various novelties like symbols as a [[simple scalar]] type and the [[Rank operator]]. | '''A+''' is an extension of the A language. A was created in 1985 by [[Arthur Whitney]], then of [[wikipedia:Morgan Stanley|Morgan Stanley]]. At the time, various departments had a significant investment in APL applications and talent, APL being a language well-suited to the manipulation of large arrays of numbers. As technology was moving from the mainframe to distributed systems, there was a search for a suitable APL implementation to run on SunOS, the distributed platform of the period, and this prompted Whitney to create A as a statically typed dialect of APL with various novelties like symbols as a [[simple scalar]] type and the [[Rank operator]]. | ||