NDLI: An Array and List Processing System

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Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Penkler, Dave
Abstract	We present ALPS, a personal interactive computational environment that combines the primitives and arrays of APL\360 with the syntax and semantics of early LISP. Selected features from APL\2, Scheme, Common Lisp and other extensions were incorporated over time. Both LISP and APL are among the oldest surviving programming languages. Although they were devised for different purposes they have a number of features in common. We show how using their common features as design principles, the mathematical power of APL and the flexibility of LISP are combined into a simple yet effective tool for diverse system engineering tasks. In this paper the creation, design and evolution of the system are described, illustrating some features with code samples. Following a brief discussion on some implementation details we provide performance data of a couple of sample applications on a variety of hardware.
Starting Page	22
Ending Page	30
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450329316
DOI	10.1145/2635648.2635658
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2014-08-14
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Interpreter Programming Apl Lisp
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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An Array and List Processing System