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| developer                = [[Arthur Whitney]]
| developer                = [[Arthur Whitney]]
| latest release version  = 4.22 (unversioned) / 2014
| latest release version  = 4.22 (unversioned) / 2014
| implementation language  = [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B C++]
| implementation language  = [[wikipedia:C++|C++]]
| platforms                = x86, x86_64, IBM POWER, IA64, z/Architecture,  
| platforms                = x86, x86_64, IBM POWER, IA64, z/Architecture,  
| operating systems        = Windows, Linux, macOS, AIX, IRIX, BSD, Solaris, Tru64
| operating systems        = Windows, Linux, macOS, AIX, IRIX, BSD, Solaris, Tru64
| license                  = [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License GNU GPL]
| license                  = [[wikipedia:GNU_General_Public_License|GNU GPL]]
| website                  = [http://www.aplusdev.org/index.html aplusdev.org]
| website                  = [http://www.aplusdev.org/index.html aplusdev.org]
| download                = [http://www.aplusdev.org/Download/index.html aplusdev.org/Download]
| download                = [http://www.aplusdev.org/Download/index.html aplusdev.org/Download]

Revision as of 16:12, 18 November 2019

A+ is an extension of the A language. A was created in 1985 by Arthur Whitney, then of 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.

Over the course of the next few years, various extensions were made to the language, culminating in A+ in 1988, with "+" referring to the graphical user interface. While an A+ development group was formally in 1992, presented the very first version of K that very same year, and by 1994, K became the official successor of A+. In 2001, the source code was made public, and various volunteers took over development until 2008. From then until 2014 it was maintained by Robert Lefkowitz.

APL dialects [edit]
Maintained APL+WinAPL2APL64APL\ivApletteAprilCo-dfnsDyalog APLDyalog APL Visiondzaima/APLGNU APLKapNARS2000Pometo
Historical A Programming LanguageA+ (A) ∙ APL#APL2CAPL\360APL/700APL\1130APL\3000APL.68000APL*PLUSAPL.jlAPL.SVAPLXExtended Dyalog APLIverson notationIVSYS/7090NARSngn/aplopenAPLOperators and FunctionsPATRowanSAXSHARP APLRationalized APLVisualAPL (APLNext) ∙ VS APLYork APL
Derivatives AHPLBQNCoSyELIGleeIIvyJJellyK (Goal, Klong, Q) ∙ KamilaLispLang5LilNialRADUiua
Overviews Comparison of APL dialectsTimeline of array languagesTimeline of influential array languagesFamily tree of array languages