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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 ?
:Sure, go ahead! [[User:Adám Brudzewsky|Adám Brudzewsky]] ([[User talk:Adám Brudzewsky|talk]]) 06:26, 21 August 2020 (UTC)


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).

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