(APL) A language designed originally by Ken Iverson at harvard university in 1957-1960 as a notation for the concise expression of mathematical algorithms. It went unnamed (or just called iverson's language) and unimplemented for many years. Finally a subset, APL\360, was implemented in 1964.

APL is an interactive array-oriented language and programming environment with many innovative features. It was originally written using a non-standard character set but now can use iso8485. It is dynamically typed with dynamic scope. APL introduced several functional forms but is not purely functional.

dyadic systems apl/w is one of the languages that will be available under microsoft's .net initative.

Versions: APL\360, APL SV, dyalog apl, VS APL, Sharp APL, Sharp APL/PC, APL*PLUS, APL*PLUS/PC, APL*PLUS/PC II, MCM APL, Honeyapple, DEC APL, Cognos apl2000, IBM apl2.

See also kamin's interpreters.

aplweb translates web to apl.

dijkstra said that APL was a language designed to perfection - in the wrong direction.

["A Programming Language", Kenneth E. Iverson, Wiley, 1962].

["APL: An Interactive Approach", 1976].