APL Definition/Meaning:
Acronym for a programming language. Originally devised by Iverson as a
mathematical notation in the mid-1960s, and only later implemented as a
programming language, APL has had a meteoric rise in popularity. The main
feature of APL is that it provides a rich set of powerful operators for handling
multidimensional arrays, together with the capability for the user to define his
own operators. The built-in operators are mainly represented by single
characters using a special character set. Thus APL programs are very concise and
often impenetrable.
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