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Walks into the APL design space

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ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad, Volume 23, Issue 1

Pages 70 - 77

https://doi.org/10.1145/144052.144086

Published: 15 July 1992 Publication History

Abstract

Like any living language, APL is evolving. The design space for its future development is wide open. Some trails into that space are known, for other languages have followed them. We will walk on some trails, visit some sights and also some dead ends. We will see which development areas could solve some old problems of APL, without changing its fabric.

The goal of the paper is to enable the reader to explore the APL design space on his or her own. To that end I will point the reader to some good books and articles about problems and solutions only touched upon in the paper.

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Walks into the APL design space
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
        Data types and structures
        Procedures, functions and subroutines
      2. Language types

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cover image ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad

ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad Volume 23, Issue 1

July 1992

309 pages

ISSN:0163-6006

DOI:10.1145/144052

Editor:
Lynne C. Shaw

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APL '92: Proceedings of the international conference on APL
July 1992
326 pages
ISBN:0897914775
DOI:10.1145/144045
Editor:
Lynne C. Shaw

Copyright © 1992 Author.

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