Thanks for the reminder - and a belated happy birthday to J! This is a good intro for something I'm working on for the Ken Iverson page for the ACM's Turing Award winners web pages. There's a section I'm on now for APL systems in chronological order. I've asked APL vendors to contribute a few lines about their respective systems but it's mostly meant as an historical perspective.
I'd like some help with dates and any systems I've missed. For instance, Wikipedia mentions systems by Burroughs, CDC, and other mainframe companies with whose APLs I am unfamiliar. Here's what I have so far: [1964] I.P. Sharp Associates: developed early packet switching computer networking system known as IPSANET, and a global e-mail system. Purchased in 1987[?] by Reuters. [1966] APL\360 [1967] APL\1130 [1969] Scientific Time-Sharing Corporation [1973] APL.SV: introduces shared variables. [1973] 8008-based MCM/70 [1975?] APL\360 on the 5100 [?] Burroughs APL\700 [1977] 8080-based "small APL" called EMPL [1977] Z-80-based TIS APL [1978] PDP / LSI-11 implementmentation of APL [1979] Sharp APL [1981?] IBM VSAPL [1982?] APL.68000 for Motorola 68000 [1983?] Analogic's APL machine [1982] APL*PLUS PC [1983?] NARS2000: open source APL interpreter written by Bob Smith. [1983?] MicroAPL's APLX [1984] IBM APL2 [1985] Dyalog [1988] Timothy A. Budd’s “An APL compiler” [1987] Rationalized APL [1988] A+ [1989] J Software [1990] ACORN: APL to C On Real Numbers - a prototype APL to C compiler. [1993] K [1995] APL2000 [?] APL to C# translator from Causeway Graphical Systems [?] Bob Bernecky's APEX compiler Any help, especially with references, would be appreciated. As you can see, some of them - I'm looking at you "Sharp" - are particularly difficult to pin down. Thanks, Devon On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 8:07 PM, PackRat <[email protected]> wrote: > Three days ago, August 27 (about 4pm), was the 20th anniversary of the > "birth" of J <http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Incunabulum>, and > it has grown and developed ever since. I don't know if the developers > of J consider that the "birthdate", but it makes a lot of sense to me. > Happy birthday, J! > > Harvey > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
