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== APL on large vector machines ==

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Howdy, folks!

The following commented-out section used to be hanging around the bottom of the article, called "Actively Evolving":

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Since at least August 2014, the language has had an experimental Android smart phone APL version emulating an early APL version 'Watcom APL' which may be downloaded (use Android's Play Store) from <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.1mobile.com/watcom-apl-by-gemesys-ltd-1556072.html GEMESYS Ltd. APL here]. You'll also need the APL keyboard by GEMESYS, also on Play Store.<ref>{{cite web|last1=GemeSys|title=Watcom APL|url=http://www.1mobile.com/watcom-apl-by-gemesys-ltd-1556072.html|website=http://www.1mobile.com|accessdate=2 January 2015}}</ref> GEMESYS has an Android APL2(TryAPL2 app, more powerful than Watcom APL, with nested arrays for example) version which is in very 'preliminary/early design stage' development, but similarly available to beta-test; some very brief/summary, preliminary TryAPL2 Android [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.apl/JrUvLtQfk3o how-to-use documentation, found here]. Also per GEMESYS, WatcomAPL and APL2 for Android are in 'Experimental Stage Development' as of early Jan 2015 (Open Watcom Initiative). Further online instructions for use of Watcom APL and APL2 for Android will be forthcoming, according to GEMESYS. IBM's original documentation manuals for APL, APL2 and OS back in the 1980s were several inches thick, the equivalent of a CD today, ref. IBM's [http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/apl/library.html original documentation for APL2, found here].</span>

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I'll put it here in the hopes that someone could clean it up (for its tutorial-like tone, grammar, and poor referencing) and put it back in the article. [[User:APerson|APerson]]&nbsp;([[User talk:APerson|talk!]]) 14:15, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

I was a bit surprised that no mention was made of the APL*STAR programming language on the Control Data STAR supercomputer (evolved into the ETA 10 super). A description of the language can be found here: [http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/apl/Books/197409_APL%20Star%20Reference%20Manual_19980800B.pdf APL STAR reference manual]

:I don't see any reason to include this in the article. WP is not an exhaustive catalog of language implementations, --[[User:Macrakis|Macrakis]] ([[User talk:Macrakis|talk]]) 22:04, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

It's interesting from a historical standpoint because the original STAR-100 super was a wide-bandwidth pipelined vector processor. Scalar operations were essentially performed as vectors of length 1. What killed performance was the startup time for a vector operation. Something that Gene Amdahl said on the subject eludes my memory at the time. Later versions of the hardware included a dedicated scalar unit.

== Moderated Discussion at [[WP:DRN|Dispute Resolution Noticeboard]] ==

<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_STAR-100</ref>

[[Special:Contributions/63.155.119.22|63.155.119.22]] ([[User talk:63.155.119.22|talk]]) 21:18, 15 January 2021 (UTC)Chuck

Moderated discussion is in progress at [[WP:DRN|the Dispute Resolution Noticeboard]] concerning issues about the article. Please take any issues concerning this article to the noticeboard for the time being, rather than discussing them on this talk page. [[User:Robert McClenon|Robert McClenon]] ([[User talk:Robert McClenon|talk]]) 23:40, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

:There was no response from [[User:LongTermWikiUser]] about the use of external links. Discussion should resume at this talk page, especially about whether any sections have too much detail. [[User:Robert McClenon|Robert McClenon]] ([[User talk:Robert McClenon|talk]]) 02:28, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

::{{u|Robert McClenon}} Please forgive me for the apparent lack of response. It is tax time is it not? Please allow people proper time to respond. May we consider the issue re-opened? Thank you, [[User:LongTermWikiUser|LongTermWikiUser]] ([[User talk:LongTermWikiUser|talk]]) 19:00, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

:::If you, [[User:LongTermWikiUser]], wish to re-open moderated discussion at [[WP:DRN|the dispute resolution noticeboard]], you may make such a request to open a new moderated discussion. I will note that the dispute resolution noticeboard is for quick resolution of content disputes, and the other editors did participate in the discussion. However, you might be better off following the advice that I gave in closing the previous thread: file a [[WP:RFC|Request for Comments]] if you think that there is a specific reason to make an exception in the article. [[User:Robert McClenon|Robert McClenon]] ([[User talk:Robert McClenon|talk]]) 20:34, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

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I created a Keyman keyboard for APL. [https://www.dropbox.com/s/pnrv9rgwoisevbw/apl.kmx?dl=0][https://keyman.com] [[Special:Contributions/92.9.35.203|92.9.35.203]] ([[User talk:92.9.35.203|talk]]) 09:38, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

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Is Snap! really based on APL? Is it vandalism?

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