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.

APL has a lot going for it if you are crunching ... By 1960, he’d moved to IBM and a few years later wrote a book entitled “A Programming Language.” That’s where the name comes from ...

And I am fine with that. AAPL is the stock symbol of Apple, Inc. APL is a programming language. I see very little difference between the two. That one fact alone should be enough to keep me away ...

He never gave the language a name, and so it became known as APL - the initials of the book. Iverson subsequently led the development of an APL programming system for IBM's System/360 timesharing ...

We’d use any programming tool we wanted ... torrid affair with an exotic language called APL. This was also in a corporate environment, early 80s probably. But I still get a little excited ...