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== History ==
== History ==


Match was defined in [[Jim Brown]]'s 1971 Ph.D. thesis, "A Generalization of APL",<ref>[[Jim Brown]]. [http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/apl/Books/AGENERALIZATIONOFAPL "A Generalization of APL"]. 1971.</ref> with the name "same". [[NARS]] implemented the function first, calling it "Equivalent"; both [[Dyalog APL]] and [[APL2]] included it with the name "Match", which has generally been used in later APLs.
Match was defined in [[Jim Brown]]'s 1971 Ph.D. thesis, "A Generalization of APL",<ref>[[Jim Brown]]. [http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/apl/Books/AGENERALIZATIONOFAPL "A Generalization of APL"]. 1971.</ref> with the name "same". It was implemented in both [[NARS]] (called it "Equivalent") and [[SHARP APL]]<ref>[https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/satn41.htm "Composition and Enclosure"]. SATN-41, 1981-06-20.</ref> in 1981. both [[Dyalog APL]] and [[APL2]] included it with the name "Match", which has generally been used in later APLs.


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