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Notable APL dialects or offshoots that discard backwards compatibility with APL in significant ways include:
Notable APL dialects or offshoots that discard backwards compatibility with APL in significant ways include:
* [[Ken Iverson|Iverson]]'s papers [[Rationalized APL]] and [[A Dictionary of APL]]
* [[A+]], primarily because [[leading axis theory]] allows primitives to be removed or simplified
* [[A+]], primarily because [[leading axis theory]] allows primitives to be removed or simplified
* [[J]] to use only the [[wikipedia:ASCII|ASCII]] character set, [[leading axis theory]], and other primitive changes
* [[J]] to use only the [[wikipedia:ASCII|ASCII]] character set, [[leading axis theory]], and other primitive changes

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