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* [[wikipedia:Stanley Jordan|Stanley Jordan]]<ref>Stanley Jordan. [http://www.stanleyjordan.com/subjects/tools.html V. Tools and Technology]: The APL Language. Accessed 2021-01-07.</ref> has presented at [[APL89]] and [[APL90]] and attended [[Minnowbrook]]
* [[wikipedia:Stanley Jordan|Stanley Jordan]]<ref>Stanley Jordan. [http://www.stanleyjordan.com/subjects/tools.html V. Tools and Technology]: The APL Language. Accessed 2021-01-07.</ref> has presented at [[APL89]] and [[APL90]] and attended [[Minnowbrook]]
* [[Alan Perlis]]
* [[Alan Perlis]]
* [[wikipedia:Rob Pike|Rob Pike]] develops the APL-like calculator [[Ivy]]
* [[Richard Stallman]]
* [[Richard Stallman]]
* [[wikipedia:Ken Thompson|Ken Thompson]] was the original implementer of [[APL\11]]<ref>Lee Dickey. [https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.apl/c/u9sl6gz4IYs APL\11 source now available] on comp.lang.apl. 1993-04-15.</ref>


== Organizations ==
== Organizations ==

Revision as of 20:01, 5 February 2021

This page lists people or companies that have made significant use of APL, and are famous for reasons other than APL specifically (Ken Iverson and Arthur Whitney are the only people to achieve substantial fame for APL or array programming).

Individuals

Organizations

Because of APL's wide reach historically, only organizations that have major APL projects or groups with many programmers are listed.

Companies

Universities

References

  1. Adin Falkoff and Ken Iverson. The Evolution of APL. ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 13, Number 8. 1978-08.
  2. Alan G. Konheim. Horst Feistel: the inventor of LUCIFER, the cryptographic algorithm that changed cryptology. Journal of Cryptographic Engineering (2019) 9:85–100 (doi:10.1000/182).
  3. Jay Whipple III. Lessons from 40 Years of APL (Not Old Enough for 50 Years!) at Dyalog '16.
  4. Bill Gates. Open Letter to Hobbyists. 1976.
  5. Stanley Jordan. V. Tools and Technology: The APL Language. Accessed 2021-01-07.
  6. Lee Dickey. APL\11 source now available on comp.lang.apl. 1993-04-15.