JimW's APL Information

APL is a programming language best known for its use of non-ASCII symbols, including a few Greek letters. It is a terse, general-purpose, high-level language created by Ken Iverson and colleagues at IBM in the 1960s. Whereas many computer languages began as tools for specifying machine instructions in a system- independent way, APL was designed as a powerful, mathematically-inspired executable notation unhindered by many of the inconvenient, limiting aspects of computer hardware.