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	Should we add for "APL history interest" that Perlis's delightful ''Introduction to computer science'' (1972, 1975 Harper & Row) features APL besides Algol60 as one of the two programming languages for exposing programming.		Should we add for "APL history interest" that Perlis's delightful ''Introduction to computer science'' (1972, 1975 Harper & Row) features APL besides Algol60 as one of the two programming languages for exposing programming ?

	APL is first introduced in Chapter 3 about Languages from p195 until p226. p237-38 gives a summary presentation of APL along other prominent programming languages at that time (COBOL, FORTRAN, BASIC, Algo60, Algol68, PL/I, SNOBOL, LISP).		APL is first introduced in Chapter 3 about Languages from p195 until p226. p237-38 gives a summary presentation of APL along other prominent programming languages at that time (COBOL, FORTRAN, BASIC, Algo60, Algol68, PL/I, SNOBOL, LISP).