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A Personal View of APL

This essay portrays a personal view of the development of several influential dialects of APL: APL2 and J. The discussion traces the evolution of the treatment of arrays, functions, and operators, as well as function definition, grammar, terminology, and spelling.

Kenneth E. Iverson

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