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Newer and less commercial APLs such as [[APL\iv]], [[April]], or [[ngn/apl]] tend to be less focused on backwards compatibility than historical ones. These dialects tend to take most design choices from a well-known APL such as [[Dyalog APL]] or [[GNU APL]], but make small breaks for experimentation or address particular issues. They typically do not support features that were historically important but are now rarely used, such as [[shared variables]] or [[Branch]], and may discard features that are still in use but have an adequate replacement, for example removing [[tradfn]]s in favor of [[dfn]]s. | Newer and less commercial APLs such as [[APL\iv]], [[April]], or [[ngn/apl]] tend to be less focused on backwards compatibility than historical ones. These dialects tend to take most design choices from a well-known APL such as [[Dyalog APL]] or [[GNU APL]], but make small breaks for experimentation or address particular issues. They typically do not support features that were historically important but are now rarely used, such as [[shared variables]] or [[Branch]], and may discard features that are still in use but have an adequate replacement, for example removing [[tradfn]]s in favor of [[dfn]]s. | ||
== See also == | |||
* [[Comparison of APL dialects]] | |||
== External links == | == External links == | ||