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'''I.P. Sharp Associates''' ('''IPSA''') was the vendor of [[SHARP APL]] and a major contributor to the APL community and the [[flat array model]] in the 1970s and 1980s. Like its U.S. counterpart [[STSC]], the Canadian IPSA served as a center of APL research, hiring notable interpreter designers and implementers from [[IBM]] and starting the careers of many other notable implementors. It also sponsored the [[IPSA conferences]]. | '''I.P. Sharp Associates''' ('''IPSA''') was the vendor of [[SHARP APL]] and a major contributor to the APL community and the [[flat array model]] in the 1970s and 1980s. Like its U.S. counterpart [[STSC]], the Canadian IPSA served as a center of APL research, hiring notable interpreter designers and implementers from [[IBM]] and starting the careers of many other notable implementors. It also sponsored the [[IPSA conferences]]. | ||
IPSA was founded in 1964 by an eight-person team including president Ian Sharp and [[Roger Moore]]. Initially a contractor for [[IBM]] System/360 programming, the company quickly became involved with APL, with Moore helping to implement [[APL\360]] beginning in 1966. IPSA began to offer its own APL, split off from IBM's implementation and developed jointly with [[STSC]], as part of a timesharing service. IPSA offered this service in Canada while STSC offered it in the United States. Eventually IPSA's offering was named [[SHARP APL]] and the language began to diverge from STSC's [[APL*PLUS]]. As timesharing usage began to decline, IPSA offered SHARP APL as a stand-alone product in 1980; it would later evolve into [[SAX]], SHARP APL for Unix. | IPSA was founded in 1964 by an eight-person team including president [[Ian Sharp]] and [[Roger Moore]]. Initially a contractor for [[IBM]] System/360 programming, the company quickly became involved with APL, with Moore helping to implement [[APL\360]] beginning in 1966. IPSA began to offer its own APL, split off from IBM's implementation and developed jointly with [[STSC]], as part of a timesharing service. IPSA offered this service in Canada while STSC offered it in the United States. Eventually IPSA's offering was named [[SHARP APL]] and the language began to diverge from STSC's [[APL*PLUS]]. As timesharing usage began to decline, IPSA offered SHARP APL as a stand-alone product in 1980; it would later evolve into [[SAX]], SHARP APL for Unix. | ||
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