Chronology of APL

Chronology of APL and its Influences on Computer Language Development

[1957] Kenneth E. Iverson invents the notation known as "Iverson's Notation" while teaching at Harvard University
[August 29, 1960] First known publication of the APL idea: The Description of Finite Sequential Processes
[1962] Publication of "A Programming Language" book
[1964] A formal description of IBM's operating system/360 is published using APL as the formal notation
[1964] IPSA (I.P. Sharp & Associates) founded
[1964] PAT: Herb Hellerman's Personalized Array Translator System on the IBM 1620.
[1965] IVSYS: Breed and Abrams implementation of early version of APL on the IBM 7093.
[Spring 1966] APL implemented on time-sharing system running on an IBM 7094.
[Summer 1966] APL named.
[November 27, 1966 15.53.58 (GMT-7)] *APL360円* was born: APL implemented on an IBM 360/50 mainframe.
[Autumn 1967] APL1130円 implemented
[late 1968] APL1130円 released
[1969] Version 2 of APL1130円 released
[1969] STSC (Scientific Time-Sharing Corporation) formed.
[1970] STSC releases APL*PLUS.
[1970] Publication of "An APL Machine", the doctoral dissertation of Phil Abrams.
[1971?] Burroughs APL700円
[1972] APL on Xerox UTS (Universal Time-Sharing System).
[1972] "666 BOX" IPSA in-house (global) e-mail system goes online.
[May 1973] MCM/70 prototype microcomputer, based on Intel's 8008 chip, running APL, demonstrated at the Fifth International APL Users' Conference in Toronto.
[August 1973] The first use of a portable computer by a passenger on an airliner happens to be an APL computer.
[1973] APL.SV: introduces shared variables.
[1973] Siemens 4004*APL
[1973] Larry Breed, Richard Lathwell, and Roger Moore win the ACM Grace M. Hopper Award for the design and implementation of *APL360円*.
[1973] Xerox APL released on the Xerox 560, running under the Xerox Control Program-Five operating system.
[1974-1975] Xerox APL developed for the Xerox Sigma computer line
[1975] Publication of "APL: The Language and Its Usage" by Raymond P. Polivka and Sandra Pakin.
[September 1975] APL on the IBM 5100 - one of the first "portable" computers.
[1976] IPSA develops early packet switching computer networking system known as IPSANET, and a global e-mail system.
[1976] TOPS-20 virtual memory operating system released by DEC with support for APL.
[1976] Dyadic Systems Ltd. founded.
[1977?] Xerox "System 68" goes online as first in-house Sharp APL site.
[1977] 8080-based "small APL" called EMPL
[1977] Z-80-based TIS APL
[1978] PDP / LSI-11 implementmentation of APL
[1979年10月29日] Kenneth E. Iverson wins Turing Award for the development of APL.
[1970s] APLUM: developed by the University Computing Center at University of Massachusetts, Amherst for the Control Data 6000/Cyber instruction set.
[1981] IBM VSAPL
[1981] STSC's NARS (Nested Array System) released
[1982] APL*PLUS PC for IBM's 8086-based personal computer
[1982?] APL.68000 for Motorola 68000
[March 1983] Dyalog APL Version 1.0 released at APL83 in Washington, DC.
[1983?] Analogic's APL machine
[1983?] MicroAPL's APLX
[1983] Rationalized APL
[1984] IBM APL2
[1985] Sharp APL/HP implemented on HP-UX by Arthur Whitney, Rob Hodgkinson, Laurie Gellatly
[December, 1986] SAX (Sharp APL for Unix) released
[1988] Timothy A. Budd's "An APL compiler" book published
[July 4, 1987] I-APL interpreter written by Paul Chapman.
[1987] IPSA purchased by Reuters
[1987] "A Dictionary of APL" published
[1988] APL one of two languages adapted to use parallel operations of a special-purpose "vector processor" on IBM mainframes
[1988] A+ developed at Morgan Stanley.
[1988] Publication of "APL2: at a glance" by James A. Brown, Sandra Pakin, and Raymond P. Polivka.
[August 27, 1989] the J language is born.
[1990] ACORN: APL to C On Real Numbers - a prototype APL to C compiler.
[1990] APL\? or APL90 J (J Version 1)
[1990-1993] J versions 2-7
[1991] IAPL/Mac, an ultra-portable APL interpreter written by Paul Chapman, released
[1993] The K language released by Kx Systems
[1993] APLomb: a snap-together construction kit for math, science and technology software
[1994] J Release 2
[1995] APL2000 released by STSC (Scientific Time-Sharing Corporation)
[March 1996] CheckFree Corp. acquires Security APL.
[1997] APEX compiler based on APL and Sisal.
[2005] APL to C# translator from Causeway Graphical Systems.
[21-26 October 2007] APL 2007 conference "Arrays and Objects" held in Montreal, Canada
[24 July 2008] SIGAPL, the ACM Special Interest Group, is dissolved to continue only as a sub-chapter of ACM's SIGPLAN (Special Interest Group on Programming LANguages).
[2009] NARS2000, open source APL interpreter written by Bob Smith, released
[2013] A browser-based implementation of APL written in Javascript is released
[2013] The GNU APL implementation of an open-source APL interpreter is announced
[February 2014] J version 8.01
[July 2014] J version 8.02
[December 2014] J version 8.03