Amidst all of this, two interpreted programming languages saw themselves being used the most: BASIC and APL, with the latter being IBM’s programming language of choice for its mainframes.

If you were a Windows programmer in the late 1980s and early 1990s, most likely you had a copy of Programming Windows ... torrid affair with an exotic language called APL. This was also in a ...

Some old computer languages are destined to never ... and even functional programming entered the mainstream through APL. But it did have one strange thing that made it difficult to use and ...

Like human languages, each programming language has its own grammar and syntax, and there can be dialects, each requiring its own assemblers and compilers. Standards have been set by ANSI for many ...