This is the genealogy of the programming language APL:

APL was born in year 1960.
It became APL 2 in year 1984.
It became APL 96 in year 1996.
Then it begat J in year 1996.

This genealogy is brought to you by the Programming Languages Genealogy Project.

APL is an acronym for "A Programming Language". It was originally invented by Ken Iverson for use in mathematics, and was originally called 'Iverson notation'. It was published a few years later in a book bearing the language's current name.

it is one of the more unusual programming languages for 3 reasons:
1. Instructions are read from right to left.
2. it does not differentiate between single variables and arrays. to put this in C terms, [ 10, 9, 8, 7, 6 ] + [ 1, 2, 3 ] == [ 11, 11, 11, 7, 6 ] . or: 9 + [ 1, 1 ] == [ 10, 1 ].
3. It uses nonascii symbols for some of its functions. Thus, awkward input methods or special keyboards are required.

I would like to show an example, but I am uncertain how to show APL's special charachters in everything2; Unicode apparently has them, but does E2 support unicode?

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