'''[http://aplwiki.com/%|%APL]''' is one of the oldest [programming language%|%programming languages]. ** See Also ** [An APL playstation]: [Playing APL]: [A partial APL parser]: [APLish]: [J]: a modern, freely-available descendant of APL [http://chilton.com/~jimw/%|%JimW's APL Information]: an excellent APL site [http://www.rexswain.com/aplinfo.html%|%Rex Swain's APL Information]: a decent site for apl links, but even though the page appears to be actively maintained, some of the links are no good. [http://home.earthlink.net/~swsirlin/apl.html%|%Sam Sirlin's APL Page]: a more "into-the-guts-of-things" sort of APL page. [http://www.nars2000.org/%|%NARS], or '''Nested Arrays Research System''': was designed and implemented in the early 1980s as a testbed for new ideas in APL, principally with nested arrays. A quarter of a century later, it's time to try again [http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/apl/apl2-v2.html%|%APL2]: [IBM]s updated version of the language. It ships with an included Tcl interpreter, for handling programming tasks that APL is not well-suited for. ** Opinion ** "I like APL. I like it because it has a solid fundamental data model, and then elaborates the hell out of it.": - [CMcC], [Tcl Chatroom], 2013-12-27 "APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.": - [Edsger Dijkstra] <> Language