A.D. Falkoff, "The IBM family of APL systems", IBM Systems Journal, Volume 30, Number 4, 1991. Among others, it includes: PAT [1964]: Herb Hellerman's Personalized Array Translator System on the IBM 1620. IVSYS [1965]: Breed and Abrams implementation on the IBM 7093.
A.D. Falkoff, APL\360 History, Proceedings of the APL Users Conference at S.U.N.Y. Binghamton, 1969. http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/apl360history.htm Falkoff and Iverson, The Design of APL, Appendix A, Chronology of APL development http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/APL%20Chronology E.E. McDonnell, The Socio-Technical Beginnings of APL, APL Quote-Quad, Volume 10, Number 2, 1979. http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/eem/socio.htm Rationalized APL was 1983 rather than 1987. http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/ratapl.htm A Dictionary of APL was September 1987. SAX (Sharp APL Unix), December 1986. http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Bibliography#SAX Dyalog APL was 1983 rather than 1985. See the special supplement of Vector from 2008-09. The first article by Gitte Christensen begins thus: "At the APL83 conference in Washington DC, Dyalog APL Version 1.0 was presented to an unsuspecting audience for the first time ..." NARS2000 is released in 2009. NARS was 1981. (Cheney, Nested Arrays Reference Manual, STSC, 1981.) Look in the references section of well-known APL papers and you can find relevant information. e.g. reference 20 Ken's 1991 paper http://www.vector.org.uk/typography/pview.htm says: Wiedmann, APLUM Reference Manual, University of Massachusetts, 1975. And, of course, you can not omit Ken's 1962 book, A Programming Language. Your chronology mixes up when companies were founded and when systems were implemented. e.g. IPSA may have been founded in 1964 (?) but no way SHARP APL or IPSANET were implemented then. ----- Original Message ----- From: Devon McCormick <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, August 30, 2009 21:04 Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] Anniversary To: General forum <[email protected]> > 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 > computernetworking 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! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
