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The Evolution of APL, the HOPL I paper by Falkoff and Iverson on APL, recounted the fundamental design principles which shaped the implementation of the APL language in 1966, and the early uses and other influences which shaped its first decade of enhancements.

By Roger Hui. (108 pages). Should be a comprehensive historical review of the APL language.

Oops, sorry, here's the actual ACM DL link that works for non-Brown people. Let's change these stats. (-:

RT @jackrusher: On the power of using the right primitives:

"For our [Convolutional Neural Network], the requisite operations can be expressed in ten lines of native #APL code, using just 22 built-in verbs and conjunctions."

A HOPL must read for Smalltalkers is Dan Ingalls’ “The evolution of Smalltalk: from Smalltalk-72 through Squeak”.

A very personal history from the person who built them. Lots of new info.

RT @awbjs: Languages covered by HOPL-4 papers: APL, C++, Closure, Fortran parallelism, D, Emacs Lisp, F#, Groovy, Hygienic Macros (Scheme), JavaScript, LabVIEW, Logo. MATLAB, Objective-C, Oz, R, Smalltalk, ML, Verilog

HOPL proceedings includes the definitive copy of “JavaScript: The First 20 Years” by me and @BrendanEich. Differs from preprint in minor corrections and formatting changes—plus a bonus surprise. Preprint has been downloaded over 20000 times since March.